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THE  RIGHTS  OF  CHRIST, 


ACCORDING  TO 


THE  PHINCIPLES  AND  DOCTRINES 


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THE  CHILDREN  OF  PEACE. 


BY  DAVID  WILLSON. 


PHILADELPHIA: 

PRINTED  FOR  THE  AUTHOR. 

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INTRODUCTION. 

Lthe  writer,  was  born  of  P'e^''j^«t"''N!«hime- 
county  of  Dutchess,  state  of  New-York,  in  North  Ame 

™1„  the  year  .80.  I  removed  with  my  fe«>-'>y '"^'J;'^ 
province.' nd  after  a  few  years  became  »  member  of  the 
society  of  the  Quakers,  at  my  own  request,  as  I  chose  a 
spWtual  people  for  my  brethren  and  sisters  m  reUgion. 
Bu  after^  had  been  a  member  thereof  about  seven 
years,  I  began  to  speak  something  of  my  ^°;^^^ 
God,  or  a  Divine  Being  in  the  heart,  soul,  or  mmd  ot 

man,  all  which  signifies  the  same  to  »/  "''^'■•^"''"/d' 
but  my  language  was  offensive,  my  spmt  >*^;  ^^™' 
my  person  was  disdained,  my  ccmp...y  was  forsaken  by 
my  brethren  and  sisters.  After  which  I  retired  from  the 
society,  and  was  disowned  by  them  for  so  do.ng,  but 
several  retired  with  me,  and  were  disowned  also,  be- 
cause they  would  not  unite  in  the  disownmg  and  con- 
demning the  fruits  of  my  spirit,  for  as  1  had  been 
accounted  a  faithful  member  of  the  society  for  many 
years,  they  did  not  like  to  be  hasty  in  condemnation. 
Therefore  we  became  a  separate  people,  and  assembled 
ourselves  together,  under  a  separate  oi-der,  which  1  im- 
mediately formed.   After   I  retired  from  our  former 
meetings,  and  »b  our  discipline  led  to  peace  with  al 
people  more  till  any  one  in  our  knowledge,  we  called 
ourselves  Children  of  Peace,  because  we  were  but  young 

"■"'"'"•  DAVID  WILLSON. 

East  Gwillimburg,  county  of  ^0^^^."^ 
apd  province  oi  Upper  Canada,     3 


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Eaet  Gvjitlimburgy  County  of  York^ 

Xat  Mo7it/if  21,  1815. 

I,  and  my  brethren  and  sisters,  are  scandalously 
reported  of  throughout  this  Province>  viz.  Upper  Ca- 
nada, (chiefly  by  the  quakers,  and  others  whom  they 
have  employed)  by  false  accusations  on  myself  and 
others,  from  the  beginning  of  my  work  in  the  ministry 
in  ihis  place,  for  this  cause  I  write  as  follows: 

Sin  is  a  shame  to  all  people;  but  the  works  of  righte- 
ousness remaineth  for  ever  and  ever.  Therefore  it  is 
jnete  for  me  to  make  icnown  that  which  I  have  received, 
as  it  is  for  others  to  make  known,  that  which  they  think 
to  be  evil  and  against  my  spirit  in  the  world.  Therefore 
I  commit  the  same  to  publication  in  this  Province,  and 
to  all  others  where  it  may  come:  least  the  day  shouh^ 
come  that  my  enemies  should  rejoice  over  me  without 
a  cause,  and  make  themselves  glad  for  nothing.  Accord- 
ing to  the  expressions  of  the  wise  man  **  there  is  a  time 
for  every  purpose  under  the  sun"— So  also,  there  is  a 
time  for  me  to  meet  with  my  enemies,  not  only  in  the 
sight  of  men,  but  in  the  firesence  of  God,  who  is  my 
judge  amongst  men  this  day,  and  will  deliver  me  from 
the  hands  of  mine  enemies,  that  rail  against  me  without 
a  cause,  save  this,  that  they  are  afraid,  that  I  shall  be  as 
much  thought  of  in  principles  and  doctrines  as  them- 
selves, and  they  should  receive  dish^r  thereby.  As 
every  class  or  society  wishes  their  pi^|psion  to  be  best 
thought  of  amongst  men,  therefore,  when  others  arc 
thought  to  be  equal  with  ourselves,  we  can  receive  no 
honour  from  them,  for  what  we  think  we  know  more  than 
others.  For  which  cause,  I  write  not  that  we  should  be 
exalted  above  others,  but  that  we  should  be  as  others,  in 
this,  that  we  should  have  liberty  to  improve  the  talent  or 


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talents  which  we  have  received  of  God  in  peace,  without 
the  condemnation  of  any  people;  seeing  we  have  not  dis- 
turbed, nor  accused  any,  of  those  things  of  which  nveare 
accused  by  therm  which  is  unto  death  and  abundant  suffer- 
ing according  to  the  laws  of  the  British  government,  un- 
der which  we  both  labour  and  suflFer  reproach  with  joy, for 
peace  sake.  If  so,  it  may  be  said  of  me  or  others,  why  writ- 
est  thou  against  the  accusation  of  others?  For  the  same 
cause,  that  they  may  repent  of  their  iniquity,  become 
ashamed  of  their  sins,  and  have  joy  in  the  sight  of  God 
also;  where  our  own  sins  are  our  just  accusers,  without 
the  condemnation  of  men,  or  any,  that  arc  raised  up  in  the  . 
spirit  of  judgment,  in  the  sight  of  God,  in  the  name  of 

religion. 

Hearken  to  my  accusations,  and^paarvel  not  why  I  write 
unto  you:  ye  have  gone  the  greatest  length  your  tongues 
can  go,  my  accusers.  Now,  I  demand  of  you,  to  give  the 
world  a  cause  and  reason  for  these  things,  as  I  am  about 
to  publish  that  which  I  have  received  of  God  to  your 
condemnation. 

Blasfihcmy  hath  been  your  speech,— (/eni/m^  of  Jesus 
Christ  hath  been  your  common  sayings,— -denying  the 
Godhead  is  a  speech  of  me,  to  which  ye  have  been  sub- 
ject, and  that  I  denied  and  condemned  the  scriptures, 
hath  been  your  by-word  from  day  to  day,  to  almost  every 
one  you  did  chance  to  meet.  Now  think,  what  ye  have 
done  unto  me,  with  what  I  am  going  to  write  unto  you, 
with  faith,  that  God  will  deliver  me  from  your  dark  accu- 
sations in  the  sight  of  all  men,  who  are  willing  to  judge 
with  an  impartial  spirit  between  you  and  me.  It  might  be 
justly  supposed,  or  so  ought  to  be,  that  those  that  are 
in  haste  tb  judge  others,  are  clear  of  the  crime  of  con- 
demnation, which  they  so  freely  place  on  others,  who 
they  think  are  far  inferior  to  themselves  in  the  name  of 
religion.  Let  him  that  hath  received  little,  not  condemn 

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bim  that  hath  received  much,  becau.e  he  hath  not  re- 
ceived  hi  neither  let  him  that  hath  '««"«<»  ""T^'^,'^""; 
dem.  hi;  that  hath  received  little,  because  he  haU.  not 
received  as  much  as  ourselves:  or  such  as  condemn 

man  a^d  every  woman  improve  _that  .h.ch  they  have 
received  of  God,  without  the  condemnation  of  »ny-|~ 
same  liberty  I  ask  of  all  men  without  the  cor.demnat  on 
of  any.  that  every  man  may  be  free  in  the  grace  wh.ch 
he  ha^h  received,  seeing  it  is  the  g.ft  of  God  to  all. 
Amen.-It  is  hard  to  say,  or  yet  make  it  appear,  that 
any  one  man  received  the  fulness  of  the  knoy'^/sr  "^ 
all  the  scriptures,  save  Jesus  Christ,  who  ^f^'^^^^ 
all    according  to  the  will  of  God:  Therefore,  ^U  that 
c  ijtu'e  thft  was  of  God.  given  forth  by  holy  in^.- 
,ion,  was  fulfi.led  in  Jesus  Christ,  as  the  «J«"t  tnereof 
abo^e  in  him  before  *e  worid  began,  in  the  hean  „r 
soul  of  man,  as  his  spirit  remained  with  the  father  or 
fountain  of  all  good,  both  before,  and  when  the jvorldj 
nature  entered  into  the  heart  of  Adam,  by  «atmg  t^ 
fruit  of  this  world,  which  sets  mankind  up  to  be  judges 
of  B-ood  and  evil  in  each  other,  rather  than  to  be  proper 
Ss  o?  what  we  are  in  c  -selves:  Therefore  A^.m 
Cs  not  left  to  be  his  own  judge,  but  God  -™!  «  "T  ^ 
into  him  in  the  garden  of  Paradise  to  be  his  judge  Ci 
;:e  things  whii  he  had  done.  And  -hat  he  di  , 
oroved  his  own  condemnation  in  the  sight  of  Cod.  i« 
E  state,  it  is  lawful  for  God  in  n,an  to  judge -oh 
other;  as  our  eyes  being  opened  by  the  spirit  of  God,  to 
?hrcastinK  of  the  deeds  of  our  brethren  before  their 
S:.  arcLdid  the  iniquity  of  Adam's  before  his.  to 
Ms  own  condemnation.  ButwhenGod  condemned  Adam, 
it  wraccording  to  the  measure  or  poi^ion  of  grace 
^Wch  he  had  received  of  God,  and  h.s_4isobe_a«nce 
thereunto,  proved  his  own  conticM.aauu...    ...v...«.- 


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without  we  stand  by,  in  the  hearts  of  each  other,  and 
hear  .vhat  the  spirit  of  God  *Mth  unto  us,  we  must  be 
incapable  of  judging  accordi.  ^  to  the  will  of  God,  see- 
ine  we  know  not  what  each  other  receires  of  God. 
Therefore,  we  cannot  judge  whether  it  is  fulfilled  or 
not;  but  God  knoweth,  and  Christ  knoweth,  because  his 
spirit  was  with  God,  and  is  with  God  when  the  spirit 
Bpeakelh  to  us,  of  what  we  should  do.  A  state  very  diffe- 
rent  from  this  sinful  world,  when  they  rise  up  in  judg- 
ment against  each  other.  Nevertheless  let  all  men  have 
received  whatsoever  they  may  at  the  hand  of  God,  it  is 
no  reason  we  sho«ild  iudge  each  other  contrary  to  his 
vail,  seeing  <  n^c  not  to  condemn  the  gmlty,  but 

call  sinners  1      .  ce.  Neither  is  it  easy  lo  make  it 

appear  that  h  "X  man  in  the  sight  of  God;  if 

80,  he  would  k.  >ved  their  condemnor  and  not 

their  saviour  from  cv...demnation,  which  cometh  by  and 
through  our  own  works  in  the  sight  of  God.  Therefore 
show  unto  me  and  others,  a  cause  why  ye  have  con- 
demned me,  least  your  condemnation  should  be  visited 
on  your  own  heads,  as  received  fiom  your  own  works 
and  not  from  n»ine,  who  haih  condemned  you  not,  save 
in  this,  that  your  own  works  prove  your  own  coiKlemnr.- 

^^^^Therefore,  1  will  make  manifest  unto  the  world  what 
I  am,  and  if  cause  is  found,  judge  on  lo  prisons  and  to 
death,  as  ye  have  begun  to  stir  up  evil  against  me  w 

this  province.  *  ^       ,     ,  .u 

One  thing  comf  /rteth  my  scul,  that  after  death  cometh 
the  resurrection,  or  after  condemnation  is  done,  then 
shall  my  soul  be  free.  To  this  purpose  came  Jesas 
Christ  into  the  world  to^set  sinners  free  in  the  Uberly  of 
the  GospeUthat  his  day  might  be  glorified  on  earth  wrth 
peace:  And  that  God  might  receive  praise  in  heaven  for 
the  coming  of  Jesus  Clirist  in  man  to  set  oui'  mortal  bo- 


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dies  free  froiii  sin  and  deat^i,  Avhich  are  the  bonds  of  cor- 
ruption   in   the  sight  of  God.  If  Jesus  Christ  saw  no 
corruption,  why  will  ye  remain  therdn  to  the  dishonour 
of  that  salvation  which  comes  by  Jesus  Christ,  who 
sayeth,  *'  I  judge  no  man,  yet  if  I  judge,  my  judgment 
is  tru^  "  because  the  lather  is  with  hiin  in  judgment  m 
all  things  whatsoever.  And  so   also,  if  God  in  Ihrist 
doth  judge  ;he  world,  he  must  equally  be  a  justifi.u-  of 
them  that   lovo   his  will  theiein,  which  appeare-l  m 
Christ,  by  not  condemning  any  that  came  before  him, 
but  fulfilled  their  measure  to  the  fulness  of  the  will  of 
God  in  all.  Which  signifieth,  that  all  the  spirit  of  them 
that  wrote  the  works  in  scripture  which  Christ  fulfilled, 
rests  with  him  this  day  on  the  right  hand  of  peace,  as  he 
condemned  them  not  on   earth,  who  had  received  less 
portions  of  the  grace  of  God  than  himself.  For,  although 
it  took  many  souls  to  fulfil  the  scriptures  by  parts;  yet 
all  was  fulfilled  in  Jesus  Christ.  For  which  cause,  I  have, 
from  the  abundance  of  the  heart,  called  him  a  man  of 
God}  because  he  lacked  nothing,  and  was  the  fulness  of 
the  will  of  God  in  one  body,  to  the  salvation  of  every  state 
that  is  lost,  and  lieth  under  the  condemnation  ot  the 
sight  of  God  by  our  own  works,  which  renders  or  ren- 
dered  -thers,  incapable  of  their  own  salvation,  without 
some  one  to  testify  of  God  unto  us.   Therefore  the 
grace  of  God  or  angels  of  his  spirit  hath  been  sent  into 
The  world,  for  our  instruction,  prophesying  unto  us  by 
Moses  and  others,  that,  by  and  by  the  day  cometh,  that 
we  shall  be  nmde  clean  through  Jesus  Christ,  and  no  part 
of  the  soul  or  mind  left  in  the  deeds  of  corruption  any 

more.  „  ,    ,        .  , 

But  as  touching  the  salvation  of  the  earth,  he  saith, 
«  except  ye  eat  my  flesh,  and  drink  my  blood,  ye  have 
«n  nart  with  me."  The  same  I  make  use  of  for  my  own 
dcfwice,  as  the  same  needs  but  little  interpretation,  aivd 
is  plain  and  easy  to  be  understood  by  all. 


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I  believe  in  the  aulTsrings  of  Christ  from  the  founda- 
tions of  the  world,  and  that  he  suffered  death,  in  that 
day  that  Adam  did  that  he  should  not;  as  he  was  the 
spirit  of  the  soul  of  Adam,  before  he  was  made  an  esc- 
ternal  or  visible  being  in  the  presence  of  God,  or  all 
others  th,  t  beheld  him  in  the  garden  of  Eden,  where  hs 
fell  from  the  prcbcnce  of  God.  Therefore  it  is  the  soul 
wt  man  that  received  the  loss,  pain  or  death  by  sin,  and 
not  the  Holy  Ghost,  seeing  t^    ^^oly  Ghost  which  spoke 
unto  Adam,  disobeyed  not    >od,  but  the  soul  that  re- 
ceived it,  and  kept  not  the  saying  thereof:  therefore  it  is, 
and  was  the  soul  of  man  which  suffered  the  loss,  and  re- 
ceived the  nain  which  came  by  disobedience  into  man. 
Therefore,  as  the  spirit  of  Christ,  being  present  with 
God,  when  the  commands  were  given  to  Adam,  well 
knew  how  he  transgressed  them  through  disobeying 
what  God,  or  the  Holy  Ghost,  did  speak  unto  Adam,  of 
what  he  might  do,  and  what  he  should  not,  in  conse- 
quence of  the  reward  which  should  come  upon  him  for 
so  ^oing;— therefore,-  when  Christ  saw  the  worlds  or 
senae3  (which  he  had  made,  while  he  dwelt  with  the 
father,)  had  suffered  a  loss  by  sin,  he  so  loved  thi  world, 
and  the  honour  of  God,  the  power  of  all  creation,  that  he 
imnediately   took  the  nature  of  condemnation   upon 
him,  to  make  way  for  Adam  to  dwell  with  the  father,  as 
at  the  first;  where,  or  when  he  heard  the  voice  of  God 
every  day  in  his  heart,  teaching  him  what  he  should  d'% 
in  the  world,  to  the  honour  of  him  that  made  hir^i  and 
'in  obedience  thereunto,  might  have  received  the  lan- 
guage, that  was  long  after  s;)oken  to  Jesus  Christ,  say- 

if/^ing,  this  is  my  beloved  son  in  whom  I  am  well  pleased. 

*  For  Adam  was  the  first  son  of  Gou  in  the  world,  and 
Christ  was  his  father  in  spirit,  because,  he  is  or  was  that 
power,  by  which  God  created  all  tilings  und  ^r  the  ««n; 

UlcFcitiFc  tnjB  cailii  W'Sa  v^iiFAow  a  aiiU  viiv  iUliXwaS  iiivivVi., 


10 

so  ..o  .he  ^^^^^^:-:s::x:::::o^^^^ 

the  righwousness  thereof.  IMr  j  j^j^e  free 

of  condemnation  "P"" '""•*»;  *X  >.aB  »We  to  hide 
f.^  sin,  and  *.  '"J^J^;  ji"'^  ^  of  righteousness.    , 
all  the  works  of  darkness,  in  ^^^ 

that  the  fruits  thereof  '^''""'^^^"^rrcreation  suffered 
Therefore  as  soon  as  the  fi^t  «t^«  °^  fo„„„k  his 

a  loss  by  Adam,  Jesus  Christ  '"'"«  J  ^^  ^ork, 
joyful  rLt  ,,hich  he  ^fj:''^;^^t^':^Z^o  save  that 
if  creation,  and  ''°*«'":"°tL  °  orks  «.th  him  might 
which  was  lost  by  sin,  that  his  «°**  «'  ^  j^^ed 

^t  on  the  right  hand  of  G°d  again,  -e«.g     ^^^  ^  ^.^^ 

the  worlds  which  he  bad  ™f «' ^''^f  "„„ptio„  which 
they  did  lie  —  X^he'r^'^Grd  -d'  c^nde«=ended 
came  by  sm.  Theietore  n  ^^^  ^^,  ^„ 

to  dwell  with  man,  m  f*'""'^ '"™      j„  ^^,^  presence  of 
tored,  and  every  man  f  ""^^  dweU  m  P^^^^^^^  ^ 

God's  spirit,  as  Uie  soul  °f  ;'^^»~  "^  ™^„  took  place  in 
God  when  the  worlds  was  an.shej.     U  -  ^^^P^^^  .^ 

«an.  TO  -*'fj'^;'::,tr  a^ing  is  applicable,  vi. 
hath  taken  P>»«'*''^^"  ..,:./ „ot  my  blood,  ye  have 

„  U  ye  eat  n«t  -y.^-^if  f  Jdo  L  these  things 
no  part  with  me.    Therelore,  ^^^  ^^  ^^^^ 

we  can  have  no  part  with  Chmt,  and, «  ^^  ^^^ 

with  Christ,  we  have  ^  P^^Jht  ride  of  power,  how 
.^„aif>vebavenoparton  h  r.g^_^^  --6  -e  "«">* 
shall  we  be  jus..fied  by  Je  ^^  ^^^^^^^ 

first  justify  «very  7" /"^^^"""hich  is  to  say,  when 
up  the  ^i»Saom  to^,',:^^^^^^^^^^  l\  and  man  is  wor- 
he  hath  done  «■*.*"* ''^^°  nee  more  in  the  presence 
thy  to  hear  the  »<»«=«  °^  ^"f"""*  Z  first  ascended  the 
^f'jesus  Christ.  Which  »'.»y^««'  ^„  g..„„ 

.     kingdom  of  heaven,  before    ^ejio  ^    ^^  ,i„  ,p„.i.  of 

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disciples:  else  he  would,  or  could  not  have  saiU  that  he 
would  perform  that  humble  act  for  us,  which,  **  I,**  sahh 
he,  "  will  pray  the  Father,  and  he  shall  send  you  another 
comforter  even  the  Holy  Spirit."  Which  aignifyeih  to 
pie  the  will  of  God  made  manifest  in  us  exclusive  of  all 
flesh.  For  he  saith,  "  if  I  go  not  awa^  the  comforter  will 
not  come."  Therefore  let  God  and  Christ  have  their 
proper  due,  and  God  the  honour  which  his  son  giveth 
him:  which  is  to  say,  him  that  sent  ni^  is  greater  than   y 
me,  which  signifieth  to  me,  that  the  spirit  is  greater 
than  the  flesh,  and  the  power  of  God's  spirit  came  in 
Christ,  doing  all  things  that  ie  done  in  his  name.  And  it 
is  the  spirit  that  doeth,  and  not  the  flesh;  seeing  his  flesh 
was  but  a  servant  to  God,  or  the  spirit  thereof,  which 
was  in  him  from  the  beginning  of  sin  and  transgression 
on  earth.  Now  it  becometh  us  to  know  what  part  suffer- 
ed in  Christ,  and  what  did  not,  least  the  Godhead  should 
be  aflected  and  corrupted  by  the  state  of  sin.  Adam  was 
made  a  living  soul  in  the.  presence  of  God,  fliU  of  the 
knowledge  of  what  he  should  do,  and  what  he  should 
not,  and  received  his  instruction  of  God:  so  also,  believe 
J,  of  Jesus  Christ,  that  he  was  a  living  soul;  born  of  the 
spirit  of  God,  without  corruption,  free  from  the  dee^s  of 
his  forefather  Adam  according  to  the  flesh.  For  such 
he  was,  by  Adam's  being  made  flesh,  or  the  soul  thereof 
clothed  with  flesh,  before  the  spirit  of  Jesus  Christ.  But 
after  sin  began  to  take  place  in  Paradise,  Christ,  or  the 
spirit  thereof,  so  loved  the  world,  that  he  began  to  take 
upon  him  the  nature  of  the  rewards  thereof,  and  began 
to  groan  under  a  sense  thereof  for  relief  in  the  presence 
of  the  Almighty  fountain  of  heaven,  who  had  power  to 
forgive  sins  through  repentance,  which  is  made  by  the 
groans  of  Jesus  Christ  in  the  presence  of  God.  And  God 
so  loved  his  Son,  that  in  due  time  he  gave  him  relief 
for  all  men,  or  for  all  sinsy  and  accepted  him  the  second 


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there^atthe  command  of  the  internal  P"^*'  °f  ^"f; 

TeU  h  t^  internTlaw  of  God.  and  keep  it  not  to 

Iheiol  salvation:  >»hich  thing  A«l^'».«><"'^/" J^" 

.     .        ,„j  „j,en  God  condemned  hmi  or  them, 

rrd!;    d  „t;  uSed  not  the  Holy  Ghost;  ^ut 

thatT^rit  which  led  the  soul  astray  *erefn.mi  ther^ 

fori    M.  Mar,  that  suffers  in  man,  enabled  by  God 

hereunto.  'dU  It  receives  the  rewards  of  its  actto^n  ai>d 

heCl  for  receiving,  and  the  flesh  for  g.ving.  Thus, 

™!n  buffers  in  body,  soul  and  spirit  for  sm,  seemg,  he 
man  sutlers  in  u    /,  .  j^  God  never  com- 

^"/ThiranVir  onmr;'o  tte  will  of  God;  there- 

r"'ci  «  lut  of  him.  before  t^e^t 
orwiU  of  God  can  enter  the  heart  of  man, '"  '^^  Mn  " 


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life  in  us,  according  to  the  will  of  God.  But,  in  Jesus 
Christ  dwelt  the  fulness  thereof  bodily;  therefore,  he 
had  to  give  to  them,  which  had  part  with  him,  which  is 
to  say,  they  that  «  eat  my  flesh  and  drink  my  blood," 
hath  part  with  me  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven,  or  the 
right  side  of  power.  Which  side,  is  that  in  which  we 
are  justified  of  God;  and  that  which  is  the  wrong  side, 
or  left  hand  of  God,  is  that,  in  whicK  we  are  lying  under 
the  condemnation  of  our  own  works,  of  which  nature, 
Jesus  Christ  took  upon  him,  toiling  under  which  for 
our  salvation,  that  we  might  pass  from  the  left,  to  the 
fight  hand  of  God.  Thus,  he  became  a  mediator  between 
the  two  states,  often  telling  us  of  what  God  revealed  to 
him,  that  we  might  believe  therein,  and  do  that  which 
pleases  God,  till  he  could  testify  unto  God  his  father  for 
us,  that  we  had  become  as  he  was,  and  was  fit  to  dweU 
with  God,  by  keeping  and  doing  all  things  which  he 
commandeth  us,  even  as  he  doeth  the  will  of  liis  father 
which  is  in  heaven.  Which  would  be  the  baptism  of 
the  Son  in  us,  by  which  we  would  be  fitted  to  dwell 
with  God  as  in  the  beginning,  where  Christ  and  God, 
or  the  spirit  and  the  soul   dwells   together  in   man, 
actuating  the  five  senses  of  the  body.  In  which  state 
Christ  is  one  with  the  Father,  or  the  soul  one,  by  obe- 
dience to  the  spirit  of  heaven,  which  is  the  salvatioi\  of 
the  man,  in  body,  soul  and  spirit:  which  work,  I  believe, 
Jesus  Christ  came  to  accomplish  in  the  world,  and  was 
done  in  his  own  soul,  before  he  entered  the  kingdom  of 
heaven.  Therefore  he  made  way  for  all  men  in  himself, 
to  come  to  the  knowledge  of  God,  and  be  at  peace  with 
his  spirit,  as  he  was  at  peace  with  all  men  on  earth, 
when  his  groans  and  agonies  had  ceased  on  the  cross, 
which  is  the  end  of  corruption  to  all  that  hath  sinned. 
Therefore,  take  heed  what  ye  say,  least  ye  condemn 


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• 

many  others)  that  I  own  and  believe  in  all  the  scriptures, 
vft  I  have  not  condemned  any  part  of  them.  But  it  is  not 
kwful  for  me  in  the  sight  of  God,  to  say  that  which  I 
am  not,  and  if  I  should  say,  that  the  spirit  of  Christ 
dwells  in  me,  then  I  might  in  justice  say  that  I  owned 
or  professed  all  the  scriptures  that  are  written  of  God  s 
snirit  But,  suffer  me  to  be  small  in  my  beginnmg;  that 
K  grl  in  the  grace  of  God,  least  I  should  be  ffr.«« 
in  JoLsion  and  small  in  ,.<.rA:„  like  many  of  my  con- 
demners,  and  instead  of  growing  greater  in  the  works  of 
God,  I  should  grow  less  than  my  profession,  and  great 
in  the  service  of  the  Devil,  like  some  of  you,  who  cannot 
distinguish  the  works  of  one  day  from  another,  and  for 
ir  thereof,  have  no  knowledge  how  Jesus  Christ 
«  grew  in  favour,  both  with  God  and  man,    nor  how  the 
iace  of  God  was  multiplied  upon  him,  till  he  received 
L  fulness  of  all  things  written  in  the  scriptures  in  o 
one  body,  even  that  which  his  spirit  took  upon  him,  m 
lich  he  endured  the  nature  of  all  sin,  and  the  tempta- 
bns  thereof  like  unto  us,  and  more  in  abundance;  for 
•ne  couW  not  be  overcome  with  the  temptations  of  all  the 
Xies  of  the  earth.  Therefore,  beware  how  ye  judge  of 
-    trZvls  of  the  spirit  of  Christ,  either  in  an  mward  or 
lu'Jar?  ensl  of  the  word.  Ye  whohave  been  overcome 
riess  than  the  tenth  part  of  that,  by  which  he  was 
Jmptedtd  fell  not,  least  ye  yourselves  should  be  fou.d 
S  under  the  condemnation  of  the  works  of  Christ, 
SUe  no  part  with  him,  who  f"lfi"'=1;'- --?f -; 
to  the  coming  of  the  glorious  spirit  of  God  in  m^n, 

rn,ri«t  ve  have  no  part  with  him.  ....        .  t._  _c 

'     ^' What  were  the  first  fruits,  that  Christ  did  par.«K.  of 


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for  us  after  sin  had  taken  place  in  the  world?  He  imme- 
diately look  upon  him  the  rewards  thereof  for  our  salva- 
tion, and  became  as  one  of  ws  in  all  things  save  sin  in  the 
sight  of  God:  which  obedience,  maketh  intercession  with 
God,  for  all  states  that  have  sinned,  till  this  day.— The 
same  was,  and  is  his  stale  of  mediation  in  man,  as  by 
obedience,  he  doeth  the  will  of  God,  and,  as  by  pain, 
suffereth  for  that  which  we  have  done.  That  we  might 
be  free  therefrom,  by  eating  hisjflesh,  and  drinking  his 
blood  on  the  cross  of  death  Which  ran  from  his  side  after 
his  crucifixion.  Then,  in  order  to  have  part  with  Jesu^ 
Christ,  we  must  begin  at  the  beginning,  and  follow  him 
through  all,  as  he  hath  followed  us  through  sin:  which 
is  to  say,  when  we  have  sinned  in  the  sight  of  God,  %ve 
have  need  of  a  mediator,  and,  if  we  have  any  part  in  be- 
ing redeemed  from  sin,  must  follow  him  into  heaven: 
and  how  did  he  enter  the  kingdom  of  fieaven,  or  how  did 
he  come  down  therefrom,  that  we  may  know  the  way  to 
return,  seeing  Jesus  Christ  is  not  personally  with  us  to 
teach  us  the  way  how  he  came  from  or  passed  into  hea- 
ven? Again  true,  but  nevertheless,  he  promised  he  would 
be  with  his  disciples,  till  the  coming  of  the  end  of  the 
world:  this  must  be  in  spirit,  seeing  in  flesh  he  is  long 
since  absent,  and  the  world  yet  remaiueth,  and  the  spirit 
thereof  in  the  hearts  of  the  people:  therefore,  j,t  becometh 
us  to  know  the  spirit  of  Jesus  Christ,  till  this  spirit  is 
done  away  in  us,  after  which,  the  spirit  of  God,  or  Jesus 
Christ  in  the  fulness  of  his  glory  is  only  necessary,  and 
not  in  the  pains  of  sin  and  death. 

But  as  we  have  sinned,  we  must  first  know  him  in 
sorrow,  before  we  can  receive  him  in  joy;  in  which  state 
the  eating  and  drinking  of  his  flesh  and  blood  is  neces- 
sary, or  the  knowledge  thereof.  Jesus  Christ  descended 
down  out  of  heaven,  in  that  day  that  condemnation  and 
darkness  took  place  in  the  Paradise  of  God,  or  infant 


n. 


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16 

state  of  man;  Uiat  day  he  suffered  death  spiritually  for  ua, 
not  according  to  the  spirit  of  God,  but  according  to  the 
nature  of  the  spirit  of  a  man,  which  was  to  do  the  wiU  oi 
God  on  earth,  according  to  the  purposeof  his  creator,  who 
formed  him  to  do  his  will,  that  he  might  be  changed 
into  the  nature  thereof,  and  dwell  with  God,  like  Christ 
in  the  beginning.  And  in  order  thereunto.  Christ  came 
down  out  of  heaven,  to  fashion  sinful  man  into  his  own 
likeness,  that  he  might  dwell  in  favour  with  God,  and  be 
like  himself  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  Therefore,  he 
began  to  suffer  for  the  loss  in  Adam,  and  began  to  toil 
for  bread  in  him,  which  he  had  already  earned,  and  was 
with  God  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven,  ready  ^^  Uie  re- 
wards of  man,  if  he  had  kept  the  commands  of  God  in 

his  own  soul.  .. 

Therefore,  Christ  began  in  man,  to  build  up  all  thmgs 
anew  in  him,  as  he  began  the  creation  in  the  presence  ot 
God,  he  himself  sufferin?:  the  loss  by  sin,  as  coming 
down  out  of  heaven,  and  dwelling  in  the  absence  of  the 
father's  glory,  resting  and  toUing  under  condemnation, 
for  the  restoration  of  that  which  was  lost.  And  the  com- 
mands of  Jesus  Christ  unto  us,  I  believe  to  be  the  will  of 
God  to  man,  as  he  gave  unto  Christ  these  things,  which 
he  gave  unto  us-which  was  his  body  and  blood  on  the 
cross:  but  his  soul,  he  resigned  not  into  the  hands  of  any 
save  God;  which  body,  suffered  from  the  foundation  of 
the  world,  which  was  unlawfully  received  inti  the  hear 
of  man  by  partawing  thereof,  when  God  giveth  U  not 
untTus.  A  knowledge,  which  I  think,  thousands  have 
received  of  the  life  of  Christ  which  I  think  never  was 
given  them  by  God:  else  there  would  be  more  know- 
fedge  of  the  partaking  of  the  pains  of  his  flesh  and  drink- 
ing^into  us  his  life,  which  is  the  New  Testame^because 
it  is  partaking  of  a  new  life,  contrary  to  that  which 
comeih  by  sin  in  ws  all. 


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17 


•' 


Mark,  while  Jesus  died  by  parts,  and  suffered  in  Mo- 
ses and  the  prophets,  by  the  loss  of  their  outward  inhe- 
ritance, and  in   the   patriarchs,  by  the  loss  of  their 
children;  the  world  remained  in  sin  and  but  part  clean, 
not  doubting:,  but  that  all  that  eat  of  the  sufferings  of  his 
flesh,  received  their  rewards  equally  with  the  members 
of  his  body,  till  the  day  came,  that  his  whole  body  suf- 
fered in  death;  after  which  the  world  was  made  clean  in 
him,  by  giving  up  that  ghosi  in  every  whit,  which  is  con- 
trary to  the  nature  and  will  of  God.  ThcTsame  said  in 
him>  •<  if  it  be  possible  let  it  pass  away  from  me,  never-  , 
theless  not  my  will  but  thine  be  done,"  Which  sheweth 
unto  me,  that  the  desires  of  man  are  inferior  to  the  will 
of  God,  which  ought  to  have  been  denied  by  the  soul  of 
Adam  in  paradise,  and  said  to  the  will  of  the  flesh;  or 
fruit  of  the  body,  not  thy  will,  but  that  which  God  hath 
commanded  me  be  done,  which  was  fulfilled  by  Christ 
on  the  cross,  after  suffering  through  the  whole  of  the 
Old  Testament  dispensation,  to  the  fulfilment  thereof. 
Therefore  take  heed  how  ye  profess  Christ  and  condemn 
others,  seeing  he  may  not  be  in  all  men  alike.  I  may 
have  received  the  least  portion  of  his  spirit,  and  am 
hardly  worthy  to  be  numbered  with  them  that  lived  in 
the  world  before  the  appearance  of  his  fulness  in  the 
flesh,  seeing  he.is  not  in  all  men  alike;  but  one  hath  re- 
ceived one  portion  of  his  spirit,  and  another,  another 
portion,  all  to  the  honour  of  tlie  works  done  in  his  body 
when  he  dwelt  therein  in  the  fulness  thereof.  The  same 
£^race  was  multiplied  in  him,  as  in  the  world  before  his 
coming,  when  one  i-eceived  one  portion,  and  another, 
another,  'till  he  himself  received  the  fulness  of  all  things 
withoitt  measure  in  one  body,  and  is  able  thereby  to  jus- 
tify the  least  portion  of  the  spirit  or  works  of  grace  in  all, 
withoutthe  condemnation  of  any  in  whom  the  grace  of  God 


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abides,  to  the  glorifying  of  these  things,  %>hich  he  done 
on  earth^'in  his  body,  by  doing  the  same  in  the  Hesh  of 
others,  to  the  honour  of  God,  both  in  the  Old  and  New 
Testament,  which  U  his  life  unto  salvation  in  all. 


Wntten  on  the  /irosfiect  of  death,  by  the  Author,  in  the 
thirty  seventh  year  of  his  age,  ^6th  of  the  Ut  Month, 
1815. 

THE  powers  of  hell  are  now  combir/d; 

With  war  against  me  rage. 
But  in  my  God  my  souFs  resignM— 
The  rock  of  every  age . 

Hif.  power  in  my  soul  I'll  see, 

When  death  and  hell  has  done; 
The  hope  thereof  sustaineth  me, 

Until  that  day  doth  come. 
In  vain  men  rage  against  God's  will; 

His  power  on  earth  is  all; 
For  which  I  do  resign  my  skill. 

And  on  his  power  call. 
O  God,  thy  Son  hath  formed  me; 

I  nothing  was  at  all; 
And  if  my  like  well  pleases  thee, 

Thy  spirit  is  my  all. 
For  this  is  what  thoti  giv'st  to  them, 

That  doth  thy  gracious  will; 
In  this  I  am  like  other  men, 

According  to  thy  skill. 
Some  thou  doth  set  in  kings'  estate, 
And  some  on  earth  must  serve; 

When  others  almost  starve. 


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Choose  which  of  these  shall  be  my  lot, 

Before  I'm  doom'd  to  die; 
For  notwithstanding  all  I've  got 

My  lot  is  yet  to  cry. 
For  crowns  may  fall  from  great  estate, 

And  children  dear  may  die; 
And  those  with  gold  and  silver  plate, 

May  for  thy  mercy  cry. 
If  thou  would  grant  what  I  would  choose. 

With  beggars  let  me  share; 
And  with  thy  will  proud  Satan  bruise, 

That  none  may  with  him  fare. 

He  sits  as  king  in  many  a  seat, 

In  a  religious  name, 
And  grants  his  servants  daily  meat, 

To  war  against  thy  name. 

But  God  my  Lord  Til  yield  to  thee 

My  body  and  my  breath; 
And  my  poor  soul  shall  subject  be 

Although  my  lot  is  death. 

r^e  earth  doth  hunger  for  my  blood, 
C.  ^:^nd  Satan  for  my  soul; 
And  men  my  flesh,  for  daily  food. 
That  they  may  me  control. 

if  this  O  God  should  be  thy  will, 

Resign'd  I  am  to  thee; 
For  Jesus  Christ  my  Saviour's  skill, 

Prov'd  ^eace  and  liberty. 

Therefore  to  death  I  should  resign, 

Just  as  thy  hopeful  Son; 
For  after  death  did  him  confine. 

The  resurrection  come. 

Therefore  my  soul  should  follow  him, 
As  he's  the  only  way; 


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And  death  and  hell  must  rage  again, 
With  war  against  his  day. 

The  same  hath  set  proud  hell  to  work. 

And  Satan's  men  to  roar, 
Least  his  greaf.  kingdom  should  be  broke, 

And  death  should  rule  no  more. 

Now  tiy  thy  tyrants,  king  of  hell, 

Against  a  man  that's  poor; 
And  if  thou  can't  destroy  my  skill; 

I  would  thou  try  no  more. 

If  God  dpth  give  what  I  receive, 

The  same  is  due  to  thee; 
And  thou,  in  spirit,  must  believe 

!n  Gospel  liberty. 

Now  this  is  what  all  men  profess, 

In  this  our  darken'd  day, 
It's  also  what  my  God  doth  bless, 

In  lands  of  liberty. 

It's  also  mine,  by  George  our  king, 

The  ruler  of  my  day; 
But  yet  if  I  dishonour  bring, 

Cut  short  my  feeble  stay. 

For  this  is  in  your  hearts  to  do, 

Ye  inferiors  of  the  earth; 
And  it's  in  mine  to  do  so  too, 

And  stop  that  cursed  birth. 

Its  yfiij\        was  conceiv'd  of  helj, 

By  wi< 
And  bast. 

And  this  is  all  its  worth. 


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was  conceiv  d  of  heU, 
u     ^s  it  did  come  io^^fC'^-^f'^:  ^^ 
atards  did  this  evil  tell,v  ■-'Vam»'  f  <K.  ^ 


That  every  man  may  have  his  due. 
And  God  my  Lord  be  free; 

And  this  is  what  I'll  give  to  you, 
For  my  own  liberty. 


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ADDRESS 


TO  THE 


CROWN  OF  ENGLAND. 


! 


ADDRESS. 


To  thy  Crown  J  0  Englandy  and  !hy  great  name,  I  write 
as /oliows'-^to  all  the  InhMfants  thereof. 


1,  WHO  am  the  least  amongst  thy  subjects  in  the  sight 
of  men,  beg  leave  of  thy  ruling  po'  ^^  on  earth,  to  ad- 
dress thy  dominions  with  the  language  of  my  heart, 
which  is  no  less  for  thy  good  than  other  men,  who  ap- 
pear by  action  to  be  more  for  thy  support  in  this  world 
than  I  am— ne^rertheless  thy  dominions  are  great,  thy 
subjects  are  many,  and  thy  power  ruleth  over  many  in  the 
earth,  of  which  I  am  one,  asking  of  thee  that  which  is  in 
thy  hands,  or  power  to  grant,  or  to  deny,  wiiich  may,  or 
might  be  of  some  consequence  to  thy  kingdom,  although 
I  am  but  small  therein  in  thy  sight,  nay  scarcely  worthy 
of  thy  notice,  in  a  day  of  clamorous  war  and  great  dis- 
tress in  the  earth  to  them  that  suffer  there' y.  I  am  no 
sufferer  in  these  things,— save  a  little  property  which 
is  taken  from  me  by  distraint,  which  is  not  M'orthy  of 
mention  in  thy  sight.  I  am  a  man  of  very  little  educa- 
tion in  literal  things,  neither  am  I  acquainted  with  much 
liistory  in  the  ear*h,  neither  do  I  wish  to  recollect  these 
things,  or  write  therefrom,  any  more  than  concerns  my- 
self, or  the  work  of  my  day  which  I  may  be  called  to  do 
in  thy  dominions,  before  I  pass  away  therefrom. 

Peace  in  the  land,  is  an  honour  to  the  crown  of  all 
nations,  because  God  is  peace,  and  in  peace  created  the 
heavens,  the  earth,  and  the  seas,  with  aii  that  remain 
therein;  yea,  canst  thou  say,  oh  England,  but  what  the 


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very  ground  on  which  thou  standest,  and  which  yields 
up  thy  support,  was  created  in  peace;  canst  thou  deny 
but  that  the  very  seas,  Ihe  ocean  on  which  thou  rovest 
with  ships   of  war  and  merchantmen,  was  formed  in 
peace  by  the  Almighty  forming  hand  of  power;  yea, 
these  things  are  undeniable  truths  according  to  your  own 
F:*ofession,  of  which  I  ask  not  the  aalvatiofi  of  my  own 
soul,  but  of  God  that  gave  it.  But  my  person  and  pro- 
perties, which  I  have  received  of  God,  is  given  into  thy 
hands:  now  consider  what  ye  will  do  with  it  after  I  make 
known  unto  thee,  and  prove  hereby,  what  manner  of 
man  I  am,  of  which  yc  know  not,  except  I  write  unto 
you  according  to  the  wisdom  of  God  which  I  have  re- 
ceived respecting  thy  nation  and  kingdom  in  the  earth. 
I  was  caught  as  a  child  from   his  mother's  lap,   and 
brought  into  thy  dominions,  where  I  have  been  blest 
with  a  sufficient  support  to  myself  and  family;  and  al- 
though this  may  be  counted  as  but  a  common  or  earthly 
favour,  yet  I  receive  it  as  at  the  hand  of  God,  and  have 
been  even  or  almost  ready  to  bless  the  earth  in  the  name 
of  God  in  th;-  dominions.  For  wi.en  God  created  the 
earth  as  well  as  the  heavens,  he  saw  that  it  was  good 
and  blessed  it;  so  I  can  say  it  has  been  to  me  under  thy 
government,  for  which  I  give  God  praise  in  thy  land, 
by  calling  the  inhabitants  thereof  to  repent  of  their 
wickedness,  be  baptized,  and  believe  in  the  name  of  the 
Lord,  who  is  the  great  governor  of  all  the  earth:  there- 
fore as  he  has  caused  me  to  offer  these  things  to  you  in 
his  name,  I  would  not  that  ye  account  them  as  trifles,  or 
as  though  they  were  small,  least  by  so  doing  ye  despise 
the  things  of  God  and  enter  into  error  thereby,  and  come 
under  the  condemnation  of  God,  the  greater  power,  for 
despising  the  day  of  small  things  in  thy  land.  Great 
Britain,  that  hath  long  ruled  as  king  in  the  earth:  peace 
be  unto  thee,  and  grace  be  multiplied  by  my  soul,  and 


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hll  others  that  serve  the  true  and  living  God  in  thy 
name.  Thou  that  art  great  in  the  earth,  with  thee  I  speak 
no  more,  but  to  thy  inhabitants  in  every  degree  therein. 
Hemember  the  time  of  thy  beginning,  and  when  thou 
wast  but  as  an  infant  in  the  hand  of  God,  and  consider 
what  he  hath  done  for  thee,  that  thou  may  know  thereby 
what  to  do  with  me,  who  am  but  as  an  infant  in  the  hand, 
or  works  of  God  in  thy  nation. 

Hath  not  God  multiplied  thy  borders,  and  made  of 
thee  a  great  and  mighty  people  in  the  earth?  Hath  n»t   - 
the  womb  of  thy  mother  been  blest  unto  thee,   and 
borne  many  subjects  to  support  thy  cause.  Yea,  may 
U  not  be  said  of  thee,  that  God  hath  been  thy  father; 
e^sethine  enemy  would  have  conquered  thee  long  ago 
Hath  not  God  settled  disputes  and  disturbances  in  thy 
nation,  when  one  was  raised  up  against  another;  aim  by 
»  domg,  suffered  thee  to  be  a  people  in  peace  in  thy 
land  and  there  hath  supported  thee  and  sustained  thee, 

been  for  the  mercy  and  power  of  God  in  thy  name,  thjr 
own  nation  and  subjects  would  have  been  involved  in 
blood  one  against  another,  and  thine  enemy  would  have 

and  trodden  thy  crown  under  their  feet,  and  by  so  doine 
ye  could  no  more  have  been  a  people,  neither  could  y! 
have  bad  a  nam«  m  the  earth  any  more.-Consider  what 
the  Loi-d  your  God  hath  d.    ,-  un.o  you,  not  toZtaZ 
but  that  the  enemy  yet  strivuh  for  a  place  in  youTund 
o  overthrow  the  kingdom  which  ye  possess.  Bu   while 
U  IS  yet  in  your  hands,  I  would  that  ve  consider  the  Door 
subjects  that  are  therein  and  are  subject  to  .1  y  tw" 
Forget  them  not,  I  say  unto  thee,  for  this  cause,  thlt  a 
nation  u,  no  more  than  one  man,  in  the  sigh,  of  God 
and  as  he  hath  power  in  his  wrath,  to  curse!  nut  0^^^; 
injusuce  done  .0  one  man,  so  also  hath  he  v^ZZ 

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bless  the  same  for  kindness  and  jusdce  done  to  one  of 
the  least  of  his  people,  of  which  I  am  one  that  speaketh 
with  thee  this  day. 

Ye  may  think  it  strange  that  such  an  inferio.  should 
address  the  crown  of  Great  Britain  with  all  her  subjects, 
nevertheless,  inferior  I  am  indeed,  and  have  no  posses- 
sions therein,  save  what  the  Lord  my  God  hath  given 
unto  me,  neither  do  I  rule  over  any  therein,  save  that  of 
which  I  am  made  master,  of  which  I  hardly  durst  say 
m  the  vain  thoughts  and  imaginations  of  my  own  heart, 
an  inferior  crew  to  rule  over,  if  I  had  full  dominion  over 
them  all,  but  more  inferior  is  my  lot  when  some,  or 
many  of  them  doth  rule  over  me.  And  now  I  have  made 
known  unto  thee,  these  things  which  concern  myself  in 
thy  dominions,  and  of  my   inferior   station  therein,  I 
would  that  ye  suffer  me  to  be  free  in  all  things  which  the 
Lord  may  give  unto  me  for  thy  eternal  good,  Seeing 
that  which  every  minister  receives  of  God  in  thy  name 
and  nation,  is  for  the  good  of  thy  inhabitants  throughout 
the  whole  of  them,  save  those  that  needeth  no  repen- 
tance in  thy  name,  if  any  such  there  be  in  thy  land;  I 
mean  not  that  they  should   be  included  in   my  hand 
writing,  seeing  they  are  already  whole  and  need  no  re- 
pentance. In  this  way  I  wish  to  be  excused  for  my  pre- 
sumption, for  as  I  did  not  know  these  from  the  rest,  I 
included  the  whole  of  you  iijtKe beginning,  least  I  should 
miss  some  that  had  need  of  preaching,  and  I  thereby 
should  be  deprived  of  my  rewards.  Therefore  after  I  have 
writtea  1  will  leave  God  to  judge  between  you  and  me; 
and  also  to  make  judges  of  you,  whether  you  will  receive 
my  mijiistry  in  your  land  in  peace,  yea  or  nay.  Not  for- 
gettmg  the  text,  that  God  is  peace,  in  which  I  am  callecl 
to  preach  the  gospel  unlo  you,  whether  ye  will  receive 
it  or  not — it  is  the  same  to  me,  seeing  1  have  received, 
or  trust  in  God  for  my  own  salvation.  Ye  are  great 


O' 


indeedj  I  can*t  help  that,  neither  do  I  want  to,  but  am 
willing  ye  should  remain  great  in  the  sight  of  God, 
although  I  am  but  small  therein,  in  the  things  thereof. 
Now  choose  whether  I  should,  or  might  be  your  servant 
in  these  things,  yea  or  nay;  as  I  think  it  would  be  a  shame 
for  a  minister  to  be  banished  from  your  nation,  for 
preaching  the  gospel  of  peace  therein. 

I  am  a  man  under  the  visitation  of  God*s  power  in 
your  land,  and  many  scandalous  reports  are  in  circulation 
against  me.  The  intent  of  the  spirit  of  the  thing,  is  to 
put  me  to  flight  from  your  dominions,  or  that  I  should 
be  imprisoned  therein;  for  which  cause,  I  as  a  dutiful 
subject  make  myself  known  hereby  unto  you  of  great 
estate  in  the  world,  least  your  minds  should  be  affected 
and  stirred  up  against  me  without  a  cause,  by  your  in- 
feriors, who  seek  to  do  evil  to  the  works  of  God,  when- 
ever the  Almighty  is  trying  to  do  you  good:  this  practice 
hath  prevailed  in  your  land,  till  it  is  enough,  and  suffi- 
cient proofs  have  been  made  amongst  you  by  formjr 
disseiiters:  which  is  to  say,  when  they  come  to  be  well 
examined  and  tried,  they  were  not  the  people  that  they 
were  judged  to  be  in  the  beginning.  The  last  that  suffered 
under  the  crown  of  Great  Britain,  I  believe  to  have  been 
the  Quakers,  through  the  scandalous  reports  and  false 
surmisings  of  their  enemies.  And  as  I  am  one  that  have 
dissented  from  tl^em,  and  have  become  a  little  body  of 
people  in  this  place,  and  on  a  little  trial  in  our  separate 
station  from  them,  find  that  they  are  very  envious 
against  us,  especially  the  most  zealouc  amongst  them, 
and  by  false  reports  and  wrong  judgments,  have  stirred 
up  much  evil  against  us  in  thy  dominions:  and  in  order 
that  the  power  of  government  which  is  in  your  hands, 
should  not  be  affected  thereby,  we  write  as  follows  for 
your  information  and  peace  sake  between  you  and  us, 
not  desiring  to  be  so  far  taken  notice  of,  that  you  should 


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plead  our  cause  against  our  enemies,  but  that  ye  should 
not  become  a  weapon  in  their  hands  to  stir  up  str»fc 
-against  us  without  a  cause,  which  might  prove  to  your 
own  condemnation  in  the  sight  of  God;  for  which  cause, 
peace  be  still,  and  let  there  be  a  calm  in  your  land,  in 
these  things  in  the  sight  of  God;  remembering  that  the 
evil  hath  raged  against  the  good  in  thy  dominions  like 
the  mighty  seas,  to  which  Christ  said,  peace  be  still, 
and  there  was  a  calm  and  the  seas  obeyed  him.  There- 
fore I  would  that  ye  make  such  use  of  that  power  which 
is  in  your  hands,  O  England,  as  never  to  suffer  such 
things  to  rise  in  thee  any  more,  but  rather  repent  of  that 
which  is  done  in  thee,  by  suffering  the  gospel  to  rise  in 
peace  in  thy  dominions;  seeing  none  can  do  any  thing 
against  us  without  ye  give  countenance  thereunto,  and 
commit  the  power  of  the  law  into  the  hands  of  those 
who  may  make  evil  use  thereof,  against  us  in  thy  name. 
It  is  not  the  nature  of  my  spirit  to  lie  bound  in  prisons, 
without  a  cause,  as  others  have  done.  Therefore  I  write 
unto  you,  that  ye  may  shew  unto  me  a  cause,  and  make 
manifest  that  I  am  an  oiTender  thereof,  before  I  suffer 
thereby.  Ye  may  wonder  why  I  write  these  things,  but 
as  they  concern  me  they  may  be  better  known  to  myself, 
than  almost  any  other,  in  this  place.  Therefore  1  write 
the  following  precaution  to  you,  lest  ye  should  be  found 
engaging  in  a  work,  of  which  ye  know  not  the  end:  see- 
ing the  Lord  is  with  his  people,  and  God  goeth  before 
us  in  the  way:  therefore  as  a  messenger  of  his  will, 
I  transcribe  these  few  lines  to  you,  ye  inhabitants  of 
England,  with  all  the  rest  of  thy  dominions:  peace  be 
unto  me  and  peace  be  unto  you  therein;  God  be  with 
you,  and  God  be  with  me,  that  the  power  of  peace  may 
have  fiill  dominion  between  you  and  us,  that  it  may  be 
said  of  thy  government,  kingdom  and  nation,  we  have 
been  blessed  with  many  great  and  bright  ministers,  who 


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have  shone  forth  unto  us,  giving  light  to  our  nation,  as 
stars  in  the  firmament  of  heaven. 

And  now,  as  thus  our  land  is  visited  once  more,  with 
the  nature  of  dissention,  separation,  and  reformation  from 
that  which  is  evil;  let  us  bless  it  while  it  doeth  no  evil 
unto  us,  that  we  may  be  blest  of  God  who  has  done  no 
evil  unto  us,  but  has  often  rewarded  us  with  a  good  re- 
ward, although  we  have  done  evil  unto  those  whom  he 
hath  sent  unto  us;  lest  the  day  should  come  upon  us, 
that  he  wil^  visit  us  with  his  servants  no  more,  and  take 
the  crown  of  our  blessings  from  our  heads  and  all  be  left 
to  go  to  the  fi^d  of  battle,  and  the  seas  of  cruising 
against  our  enemy,  and  there  will  be  none  left  to  ciy 
peace  in  our  land  any  more.  Seeing  in  peace  God  doth  all 
his  work  in  the  beginning,  and  God  changeth  not,  there- 
fore let  his  wok'ks  be  at  peace  in  our  land,  and  the 
Lord's  work  be  done  in  peace  therein,  because  God  is 
peace. 

DAVID  WILLSON, 

Whitchurch,  county  of  York,  and" 
province  of  Upper  Canada,  15th ' 
of  the  Second  Montk,  1815. 


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BABYLON  OYERTHROWN. 


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BABYLON  OVERTHROWN. 


X  ROM  whence  came  man  but  of  God?  From  whence 
came  sin  but  of  man?  seeing  there  was  no  sin  before  man 
'/done  that  which  he  should  not.  Who  or  what  is  right,  save  ■ 
God;  and  who  or  what  is  wrong,  save  man,  and  the  works 
thereof?  Then  if  man  in  his  works  is  wrong,  it  becometh 
him  to  labour  and  toil  to  know  that  which  is  right,  that 
he  may  do  that  which  is  wrong  no  more.  Did  God  make 
all  things  right  in  the  beginning?  yea,  because  God  is, 
and  was  altogether  rightj  therefore  no  wrong  or  unclean 
thing  Cometh  fortli  of  God.  If  God  was  and  is  good  with 
all  his  works,  how  could  man  do  that  which  was  wrong 
in  his  sight;  because  man  had  a  work  to  do  in  the  begin- 
ning, the  neglect  thereof  was  wrong  in  the  sight  of  God; 
seeing  God  spake  unto,  or  ii7^'>  mao,  of  what  he  should, 
or  might  do;  but  positively  ot  :hat  which  he  should  not; 
for  in  so  doing,  he  should  die  to  the  rewards  of  that 
which  he  might  have  done;  if  he  had  kept  the  word  of 
God  in  himself,  by  which  all  things  was  created.  Behold 
the  goodness  of  God  to  man  in  the  beginning,  and  doubt 
not  but  God  is  altogether  good;  for  when  he  had  finish- 
ed the  worlds^  and  all  things  which  is,  or  was  therein,  by 
his  all-powerfal,  or  labouring  word;  he  gave  the  same 
unto  man,  whereby  he  might  toil,  and  become  an  image, 
or  heir  of  his  gtoiious  res^;  whlgh  wa^  with  liiiii  Wr^n  the 


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worlds  were  made;  therefor-,  man  was  made  in  the  image 
of  God  in  the  beginning,  that  he  might  be  an  heir  to  his 
rest  in  the  end,  seeing  in  the  spirit  of  God  are  many 
mansions,  which  signifies  to  me,  a  place  for  all  that  tul- 
iil  the  purpose  of  their  creation,  which  is  to  obey 
whatever  the  word  of  God  saith  unto  us  in  the  beginnmg 

in  us  all.  r  i-   j»       •  % 

When  man,  or  Adam  is,  or  was  born  of  God  s  spirit, 

he  was  upright  in  Iiis  sight,  as  he  had  not  yet  fallen;  but 
in  order  that  he  should  know  his  creator,  and  the  pur- 
pose of  his  creation,  God  commanded  him  to  toil,  or  do, 
by  which  experience  we  come  to  the  knowledge  of  all 
things  which  is  done;  otherwise  man  could  not  keep  the 
image  of  God,  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  his 
days,  and  the  image  of  God's  hereafter  presence,  or 
glory  for  ever  and  ever,  into  which  God  entered  when 
his  work  on  earth,  or  in  earthly  things  was  done,  into 
which  man  can  never  enter,  nor  behold  the  presence 
thereof,  until  he  comes  to  that  state  of  uprightness  in 
which  he  was  created,  or  born  cf  the  spirit  of  God,  and 
that  which  is  fallen  or  lost,  altogether  restored,  or  found 
by  him  in  the  first  state  of  creation;  after  which  he  may 
receive  his  word*  or  the  Holy  Ghost  again,  as  in  Adam, 
and  keep  the  commands  thereof  till  the  end  of  our  days, 
and  do  the  will  of  God  from  our  cradle  to  our  gr^ve,  and 
keep  the  image,  or  glory  of  God,  in  which  we  was  made 
for  ever  and  ever  peace  without  end.  Amen. 

Because  the  ghost  of  God  is  holy,  from  the  beginning 
to  the  en4  in  the  life  of  man;  unto  this  state  all  must 
come  that  hath  sinned;  seeing  in  sin,  or  corruption,  no 
man  is  worthy  of  the  will,  or  presence  of  God;  then  it 
Tiiay  be  said,  how  did  God  appear  unto  Adam  after  trans- 
gression  of  soul:  he  first  appeared  in  Adam  by  remem- 

.  ..     ,    .  .1 1  1 J  ««:«!  uTifrt  Viim  before  he 

brance  oi  wnat  iiiv  wui"u  A*a-u  =ai«  «:=-.-.^  ^ 

had  disobeyed  the  commands  thereof,  the  same  as  Christ 


T 


35 

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appeared  in  Peter,  causing  him  to  remember  what  he 

had  said  unto  him  that  night  in  which  he  was  betrayed 
into  the  hands  of  sin  and  corruption;  so  Adam  also  by 
forgetfulness,  carelessness,  or  neglect,  refused  to  keep 
the  word  of  God,  and  thereby  was  betrayed  into  the 
state  of  shame  before  God,  or  the  power  thereof  appear- 
ed unto,  or  into  him;  in  condemnation  for  that,  or  for 
not  doing  that  which  he  ought  to  have  done;  the  ne- 
glect of  which  caused  him  to  do  that  which  he  should 
aot.  If  things  had  been  right  in  the  world,  the  same 
might  have  been  said  of  them  in  the  act  of  denying  and 
betraying  Jesus  Christ;  but  suffer  it  so  to  be,  seeing  the 
same  preaches  unto  us,  that  we  should  not  do  like  them  in 
these  things;  neither  should  we  do  like  Adam,  in  what 
he  done,  that  was  contrary  to  the  will  of  God.  But  of  the 
former  cometh  the  latter,  and  from  the  fall  of  Adam,  or 
first  transgression  in  us,  cometh  all  iniquity,  seeing  it 
is,  and  was  the  root  of  all  evil  under  the  sun;  therefore 
him,  or  them  which  hath  sinned  in  the  sight  of  God, 
must  first  know  the  beginning  of  evil  in  ourselves,  be- 
fore we  can  know  the  beginning  of  the  will  and  power  of 
God  in  us,  because  good  was  before  evil  in  the  sight  of 
God,  but  evil  works  was  before  that  which  was  good  in 
Adam,  or  in  us,  that  is  like  unto  him  in  all  things  which 
we  do  in  the  state  of  sin.  Therefore  it  is  meet  for  Adam  ^ 
or  his  fallen  state  in  us,  to  first  know  the  evil  which  we 
have  done,  before  we  can  know  the  will  of  God,  which 
was  in  us  before  evil  took  place  by  transgrt- ssicn  there- 
in. The  want  of  which  knowledge  is  the  downfall  of  so 
many  good  buildings,  and  great  ciiies,  or  societies  that 
are  raised  up  in  the  earth,  after  the  order  oi  Babylon,  or 
the  tower  thereof,  which  grew  well  for  a  while,  till  the 
language  got  confounded,  and  the  builders,  or  ministers 
could  build  no  more:  the  reason  isj  the v  have  not  the 
will,  or  the  spirit  of  God,  for  their  foundation;  neither 


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had  the  builders  of  Babylon,  else  it  nexer  could  be  over- 
.htwn;  seeing  th«  po«er  of  God  is  the  greatest  power, 
lndrureslfoundatio.8  amongst  men;  yea,  the  globe,  the 
heavens,  and  the  earth,  remains  thereon,  «.th  the  sun. 
moon,  and  stars,  in  the  firmament  thereof,  and  their 
Ught  goeth  not  out  for  ever.because  God  ts  the  bu.lder. 
pfwer!  and  light  thereof.  But  these  »hatbmld"P  good,  not 
knowing  the  foundations,  and  beginning  of  evil,  is  very 
S  to  build  thereon,  and  down  comes  Babylon,  with  all 
he  glories  of  the  earth,  seeing  Jesus  Christ  refused  and 
despised  them  all.  before  he  began  to  preachthe  gospel  of 
peace  to  the  people;  and  his  first  cry  was  not  "«<>  *ein, 
do  good,  but  repent  of  that  evil  which  is  done,  that  here- 
after  we  migh.  do  good.  Mark  how  he  was  baptized  of 
John,  when  in  man's  estate,  according  to  the  size  of  the 
flesh,  before  he  could  endure  all  these  temptations,  by 
which  all  the  Sons  of  Adam  fell  from  uprightness  of 
heart  before  God,  net  as  though  he  had  need  to  be  bap- 
tized for  his  own  sins,  but  as  though  we  had  need  he  should 
pass  through  this  state,  for  our  sakes,  that  his  whole  Ufe 
might  be  the  complete  and  full  ministry  of  God,  from 
the  state  of  the  fall,  to  uprightness  of  heart,  or  the  full 
resloralion  of  all  that  which  was  lost  in  us,  which  ap- 
peared in  Jesus  Christ  on  earth,  by  fulfilling  every  state 
of  the  mercy,  and  power  of  God  to  all  that  hath  sinned; 
therefore,  in  the  life  of  Christ,  are  many  mansions, 
much  room,  or  many  states,  wherein  all  may  rest,  and 
never  fall  like  Babylon;  because  every  state  m  hirn  is, 
and  was  right;  therefore  God  is  the  author  of  that  which 
is  right,  and  man  the  author  of  that  which  is  wrong;  and 
Jesus  Christ,  in  whom  was  both  the'nature  of  God  and 
man,  in  one  body,  the  perfect  knowledge  of  a  mtAimr 
jj.M-o.p  »hp  tivn  states  in  us:  therefore  the  life  ol  Christ 
U 'th7  full 'and  ample  ministry  of  God  in  us,  while  we 


37 

remain  in  a  state  of  sin,  or  by  experience  in  the  least 
sense  thereof,  which  sense  was  not  in  Adam,  when  he 
first  heard  the  word  of  God,  neither  can  it  be  in  us,  when 
his  spirit  speaketh  in  us  again,  which  state  I  call  God  in 
man,  and  Christ  with  the  father,  as  in  the  beginning;  and 
his  spirit  only  known  in  us,  exclusive  of  the  flei^h  of  all 
men,  as  no  man  had  laboured  on  earth  to  corrupt  the 
mind  of  Adam  before  he  sinned,  or  might  have  done 
that  which  is,  or  was  right  in  the  sig^     of  God. 

But  now  while  we  have  got  things  into  a  small  com- 

pass)  even  in  us,  let  us  try  to  know  what  we,  or  I  am, 

wluch  becometh  every  man,  let  them  be  born  of  Adam, 

Christ,  or  God,  which  are  the  three  states  in  man,  or  the 

soul  thereof,  God  striving  by  Christ,  for  the  victory 

therein,  over  all  the  powers  of  the  earth,  or  temptations 

of  the  Devil  therein.  How  came  man  into  three  parts,  or 

the  Godhead  into  three  natures  subsisting  on  or  in  one 

God?  God  made  all   things  in  his  own  image,  which 

image  ,s  good  in  .i'    hings  that  are  made;  in  that  day  I 

cannot  see,  that  there  was  any  thing  more  in  the  world, 

or  m  man,  than  God,  and  his  works,  or  God  in  his  works. 

Xr?  •^•'^^rK^^'^^'  ,nd  all  things  to  obey  him, 
which  dominion  he  had  when  he  dwelt  with  the  father 
and  whatsoever  he  said  should  be  the  name  and  power  of 
he  beasts, that  it  was,  and  thsy  were  contented  therewith, 
that  Adam  the  first  son  of  God  should  rule  over  them  in 
peace,  because  all  were  satisfied  with  the  name  or  power 
which  Adam  gave  unto  them.  The  same  is  an  emblem  of 
that  which  was  fulfilled  by  Christ  and  his  disciples,  wl'o 
once  had  lost  their  first  estate,  and  fallen  into  the  n^tue 
of  beasts  by  serving  the  temptations  of  the  earth:  there! 

and  be  passive  m  the  har, !  of  the  son,  spirit,  or  son]  of 
God  once  morp.  Qio..^;f„:..^.u^„^i..  .,  .  ...  '  ^  =>"i»i  oi 
*u^  u  '  "  '  -o-"/-"5  iiiwrvuy  meir  iaiien  state  from 
the  begmnrng;  when  the  spirit  of  God,  or  the  Holv  Gho« 


58 


if.' 


II 


■•1  W 

u  ; 

h  .1 


\i-i 


both 


.„,,.  u  ever,  r^'^':^^^^:.:^:^^^:!:::^^ 

the  body  and  soul  °f  ''\"'»"    or  us  it  would  have  pre- 
order  had  been  kept  .n  Adam,  or  us^  '^  «  ^ 

served  us  in  soul  and  body,  or  ^^"^J^J^;  „„  ^arth, 
other  Lord  and  .aster,  -  —  -J^^ru  God's  «orUs. 
seeing  man  was  and  is  the  mosi  i 

and  aLe  worthy  to  be  — ^»"f  ^„7„\  bTthe  last  in 
^as  the  Hrst  c-der  of  God  m  man,  and  will  be  ^^^ 

us,  if  we  ;ver  know  our  own  «°">» '»  ^  ^"^b^^  ^hen 

s.  te  of  Paradise  -"""-J.'^tf^f ''.tre'^as.  or  is  one 
™an  or  Adam  first  entered  f  °  «>"; '^^^'^J^^;  „eated; 
«ore  nature  in  "^han  J^t  -  -h.a.  w  ^^^  .^^^^^^  ^^ 
and  when  we  ^o  'hat  which  we  _^  ^    ^^^_ 

that  which  we  should  do,  there  is  an  ^s, 

trary  to  the  will  «"''P°:t;;;f'i:  professions,  or  so- 
and  tens  of  thousands  >- J  »P  J^  ^  ^,,  ^.j.h  is  the 
cieues  in  the  earth,  PJ°™  ,^„  ;„  „s  after  we 
second  nature  of  Gcd,  "h'ch  ''«  J  „^jures  in  us, 
have  sinned,  in  which  «;=>  «  ^^^^.^^Vrh"  knowledge  of 

,.hich  are  the  nature  of  «>" J^ J^^^  ^^ich  the  know- 
God  is  lost,  and  the  nature  oChr^^hy  ^^  ^^^^ 

ledge  of  God  may  be  fo-f  ^^l  .hereof  by  the  ^ 
sinned,  and  received  «ome  know      g         ^^^^^^^  ^^_ 
spirit  of  Christ  crying  repentance  m  j        ^^  ^ 

/eived  God,  but  J^e  kno-J^^^^^J,,  „,  ,,e  spirit  there- 
found,  seeing  the  hfeoH""'' ^  reconciliation,  to  bring 
of,  is  a  spirit  of  -ef ««°»;  °  J^,  „f  the  Holy  Ghost, 
mankind  back  into  the  knowie  g  ^^^^^.^^^  ^^ 

^hich  is  without  flesh  or  -"ho»t^^";^„,  ,^^,  God  be- 
all  that  labour  in  the  will  °f  «°°  '°^  ,fter  man  had 
came  into,  or  came  in  twonatu  es  n  m    ,  ^^  ^^^  ^.^^  ^^ 

taken  into  him  a  -'";;;'^,f^;;h°ch  Go'd  appeared  no 
God,  which  he  should  not  after  ^^^^  ^^  ^^^^ 

more  naked  before  him,  as  in_spu«,  ^^  ^^^^^^  ^^  ^^^^ 
in  the  beginning,  but  Dega-..  v"  "■"-  - 


•.*« 


39 


upon  him  which  first  veiled  Adam,  or  ourselves  from  his 
sight:  therefore  he  began  to  speaK  to  the  sons  of  Adam 
or  repeated  transgressions  in  another  manner,  than  that 
in  which  he  first  did  speak  to  him  in  the  beginning,  in 
the  heart,  soul,  or  mind  thereof.  Therefore  Christ  first 
began  his  work,  with,  or  in  the  state  of  sin  by  the  first 
teachers  of  righteousness,  after  transgression  first  took 
place  in  the  heart  of  man;  therefore  God  in  Christ,  or  the 
fiesh  thereof,  first  became  veiled  from  the  presence  of 
all  that  have  sinned,  and  became  unworthy  of  his  holy 
presence,  or  that  Ghost  which  is  holy  in  man,  the  same 
hath  a  right  to  the  whole  heart  thereof,  and  while  any 
other  ghost  or  spirit  abides  therein,  no  man  hath  re- 
ceived the  whole  interpretation  of  God  to  man,  or  the 
spirit  thereof  in  man,  in  which  state  no  man  is  perfect 
neither  have  they  received  God*s  holy  ghost,  seeing 
the  heart  is  partly  filled  up  with  another,  which  is  con- 
trary to  the  pure  aind  undefile^  nature  thereof.  There- 
fore God  remained  or  remains  veiled  in  the  spirit,  or 
flesh  of  Christ,  and  only  reveals  himself  to  man,  by  and 
through  the  flesh,  or  the  spirit  thereof,  by  parts,  as  the 
heart  becomes  clean  by  repentance,  to  the  reception 
thereof,  till  he  appears  naked  and  bare  in  man  as  at  the 
beginning,  speaking  to  man  by  and  through  no  object  of 
mediation  any  more,  in  which  state  we  receive  Christ,  in 
the  glory  and  will  of  God;  but  in  the  first  state,  under  the 
bonds  of  sin,  and  corruption,  in  which  state  his  acts  are 
not  clean  in  the  sight  of  God,  as  though  we  had  not 
sinned,  yet  they  are  clean  in  his  sight,  because  we  have 
sinned  and  the  first  nature  of  Jesus  Christ,  or  God 
therein  after  \ye  have  sinned,  is  agreeable  to  the  will  and 
mercy  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  because  of  sin  in  us  purging 
the  heart  of  man,  by  the  spirit  of  Jesus  Christ,  that  the 
temple  of  God  might  be  made  clean  thereby;  that  the 
Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost,  might  dwell  together 


i> 


i 


40 

therein  as  in  the  beginning  when  these  three  made  one 
all  powerful,  all  living  and  one  all  eternal  God  in  man 
throughout  all  the  earth. 

But  in  order  thereto,  many  if  not  all  of  these  little    ^ 
B-.bylons  that  are  not  more  than  knee  high  must  come 
down;  which  is  to  say,  our  society,  and  our  profession, 
and  our  folks  exceed  all  accorcUng  to  scriptures,  but 
which  exceeds  in  the  life  of  Christ,  which  is  the  rights  of 
man,  or  the  right  of  God  in  man,  after  he  hath  sinned  to 
his  own  condemnation.  Why  the  most  spiritual  people 
say,  that  most  assuredly  we  are  right,  and  must  stand 
the  longest;  seeing  we  have  the  very  spirit  of  Christ  for 
our  fDundation.  Boast  not  of  these  things,  because  in  the 
end,  Christ  resigns  up  the  kingdom  in  the  heart  of  man 
to  God,  and  his  spirit  becomes  all  and  all  therein;  and 
the  spirit  of  the  works,  or  life  of  Christ,  is  a  spirit  of 
mediation,  and  must  pass  away  from  between  God  and 
man,  or  the  works  done  in  his  body;  from  between  the 
Holy  Ghost  and  the  soul.  The  same  caused  Chrifit  to  say 
to  his  disciples,  if  I  go  not  away,  the  comforter,  or  ano- 
ther will  not  come:  in  which  state  he  resigned  up  the 
heart  of  his  disciples  to  the  immediate  power  of  God,  or 
commands  of  the  Ho.,  Ghost;  in  which  state  the  servant 
was  as  their  Lord,  when  he  was  commanded  by  the  Holy 
Ghost  from  the  manger,  to  the  cross;  where  he  died  and 
rose  again,  free  from  the  condemnation  of  sm,  which  he 
put  off  in  his  agonies  on  the  tree,  sentence  by  sentencer 
or  croan  by  groan  till  he  gave  up  the  whole  ghost  of  sm, 
death,  and  corruption,  which  state  we  must  all  see  before 
ever  we  know  the  first  coming  of  the  state  of  Jesus 
Christ  in  us,  seeing  he  was  without  sin  in  his  fir^    body, 
which  was  born  of  the  virgin,  formed  of  God  as  the  soul 
of  Adam  in  Paradise,  and  was  without  sin  throughout  his 

days  until  death.  ^»   .  ,     -n  ^««,- 

L,  __  r_^ :.!-«  «1.e»>iftr  Teaus  Christ  Will  COmC 


-^ 


<* 


^ 


41 


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<< 


down  from  heaven,  and  abide  in  us,  doing  his  former 
acts  in  our  sinful  bodies,  yea,  or  nay;  if  we  say  yea,  so  it 
is,  then  why  did  God  chose,  or  form  a  body  without  sin, 
to  dwell  in,  because  he  would  not  dwell  in  the  heart, 
with  the  spirit  of  corruption;  therefore,  he  appeared  on 
earth  in  one  that  was  altogether  clean,  for  although  the 
wages,  or  rewards  of  si.^  was  upon  him,  yet  the  spirit 
thereof  was  not  in  him,  where  God  the  power  of  his 
father  did  dwell;  for  which  cause  I  think  many  are  not 
quite  in  as  high  a  stats  of  spiritual  things,  as  they  would 
feign  teach  to  others,  if  they  would  receive  them,  fo^ 
which  cause  I  murmur  not,  that  I  have  received  no 
man's  doctrine,  save  that  which  God  hath  given,  for  by 
so  doing  1  shall  not  break  through  and  steal  that  which 
is  given  to  others,  which  I  think  all  do  that  profess  Jesus 
Christ  in  the  second  state,  not  knowing  him  in  the  first. 
These  to  me  are  like  a  people  that  never  toiled,  resting 
before  they  are  wearv,  entering  into  heaven  before  the 
work  is  done,  setting  down  in  a  state  of  dumb  stupid 
case,  as  though  the  pains  of  Jesus  Christ  had  washed 
their  sins  away,  when  I  believe  his  life  to  be  the  only 
pattern,  of  example  by  which  we  are  made  clean,  ard 
as  Ood  in  the  first  place  spake  in  Adam,  in  spirit,  so 
also  in  the  third   he  spake  in  us  by  and  through  the 
power  of  the  Holy  Ghost,   but  as  in  the  second,  by 
and  through  his  Son,  our  souls  or  God*s  redeemer  of 
mankind,  unto  him  that  is  or  was  lost.  Now  if  God,  or 
his  immediate  power,  or  the  Holy  Ghost  is  in  us,  as 
professed  by  many  in  our  day,  the  same  I  believe  to  be 

God  in  the  beginning  and  in  the  end And  as  it  is  a 

common  saying,  or  profession,  that  we  all  have  sinned, 
so  also  I  would  that  it  was  as  common  to. tell  how  all 
was  redeemed  therefrom  that  profess  they  have  receiv- 
ed the  spirit  of  Christ,  or  that  inspiration  that  is  alto- 
gether  acceptable  in  the  sight  of  God.  Seeintr  I  have  nnt 

D  2 


Hik-:. 


l»-  i 


;4'  I 


fe:u 


i  I 


'i  i: ! 


-•JB^ 


42 

professed  these  things,  but  the  name  of  God  only,  not 
as  though  I  was  great  and  did  profess,  or  possess  the 
fulness  thereof;  but  as  though  he  was  the  father  of  all 
good,  both  great  and  small,  I  professed  his  name,  lest 
I  should  err  in  profession.  Seeing  it  is  testified  that  it 
is  by  him  that  we  come  to  the  knowledge  of  Jesus 
Christ,  and  by  the  power  or  spirit  of  Christ,  we  come 
to  the  knowledge  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  And  it  appears  by 
the  doctrine,  and  life,  and  prayers  of  Christ,  that  God 
giveth  all;  which  signifies  to  me,  that  God  giveth  unto 
us  the  right  knowledge  and  sense  of  Jesus  Christ;  and 
how  we  should  work  by  him  as  our  pattern,  or  follow 
him  as  our  example,  or  believe  in  him  as  our  God,  till 
the  Holy  Ghost  cometh.  All  which  is  born  of  the  spirit 
of  God  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  his  internal  likeness  for  ever 
in  the  heart  and  soul  of  man,  bringing  forth  fruits  of  its 
own  kind  for  ever.  But  as  the  God  of  all  nature,  both 
spiritual  and  temporal,  save  sin,  hath  become  divided 
into  three  parts  for  our  sakes  that  hath  sinned,  it  oe- 
cometh  us  to  know  how  we  receive  it,  lest  we  should 
do  dishonour  to  the  author  of  all  good  thereby,  seemg 
the  Almighty  in  his  several  existences  in  man,  cannot 
be  divided  against  himself,  lest  his  kingdom  thereby 
should  fall  in  us,  and  the   works  thereof  in  the  world, 
and  the  desired  prayers  of  Jesus  Christ  to  his  disciples, 
should  never  be  fulfilled  on  earth:  which  is  to  say,  thy 
will  be  done  on  earth,  as  it  is  in  heaven,  which  signifies 
thy  kingdom  rule  in  the  heart,  as  in  thy  spirit,  where 
all  things  issue  for  thy  praise,  as  in  the  beginning.  Then 
it  becometh  us  who  have  fallen  into  a  lower  degree  of 
nature  than  our  first  state,  to  praise  God  for  all,  or  every 
means  of  our  deliverance  therefrom,  as  people  m  every 
age,  state,  or  degree,  hath  given  unto  him  a  measure  of 
praise.  But  if  vc  should  praise  God  for  that  which  we 

.  _ -^ : A    ,*«  oU/MiU  Ha  false  worshiDDcrSy 

nave  noi  yei  icvwiicuj  ww  aw-'-^i--  — -  — —  »•      ' 


'^ 


•^ 


t 


»!■ 


43 

serving  a  God  whom  we  know  not,  and  none  would  be 
our  equals  in  these  things,  save  the  state  of  the  Pha- 
risee, who  praised  God  for  that  which  he  had  not  yet 
received,  and  gave  him  thanks  for  that  which  he  had 
not.  And  I  can  say  of  a  truth  with  the  Publican,  that 
spake  after  hirn  in  the  world,  as  I  speak  after  your  great 
and  mighty  spiritual  professions  therein:— that  him  that 
knoweth  his  own  sins,  and  the  spirit  thereof,  is  more 
justified  in  the  sight  of  God,  than  a  great  many  others 
that  are  boasting  of  what  they  have  received,  puffed  up 
with  some  knowledge  of  the  Holy  Ghost  according  to 
professions. 

Suffer  me  to  ask  of  you  some  questions,  you  tliat  are 
my  superiors  in  your  own  eyes,  according  to  your  un- 
blameable  profession.  If  Jesus  Christ  is;  the  way  to  God, 
and  the  mercy  and  power  of  God  in  us,  the  way  to  Jesus 
Christ,  and  the  spirit  thereof,  how  far  ye  have  travelled 
in  the  way,  where  ye  came  from,  and  when  you  got 
there;  seeing  ye  have  received  Christ,  and  the  Holy 
Ghost,  that  lightest  every  man,  coming  into  the  state, 
or  nature  of  this  world.  1  herefore  ye  that  have  the 
light,  are  a  very  proper  people  to  ask,  how  myself  or 
others  shall  get  out  of  it.  What  foolish  questions  to  ask, 
seeing  eveiy  man  hath  received  the  light:  true,  but 
every  mar.  hath  not  brought  forth  fruits  of  the  light,  by 
which  all  men  shall  know  that  ye  have  received  it. 
What  good  doth  it  do,  to  say  there  is  a  light  in  dark^ 
ness,  if  the  darkness  cannot  comprehend  it:  ye  might  as 
well  say  there  is  a  light  under  a  bushel,  as  to  say  that 
Christ,  or  the  Holy  Ghost,  dwells  in  9  heart  of  wicked- 
ness. Christ  saith,  when  I  am  in  the  world,  I  am  the 
light  thereof;  so  also  believe  I,*  that  when  Christ  is  in 
tis,  we  is  a  light  in  the  world,  by  works  which  he  hath 
done,  when,  or  while  he  dwelt  immortal  in  that  body  of 
mortality  on  earth,  in  which  he  TninictAr^^  /^»  ^A^i^f 


•i; 


i 


^•i 


i  1 


44 

tered  his  father's  will  unto  us;  beginning  at  the  first  and 
j-emaining  till  the  last  therein.  Not  after  the  order  of 
those  societies,  that  rise  and  fall  according  to  the  order 
of  Babylon  in  us,  which  spirit  takes  place  in  us,  when- 
ever we  think  we   get  pretty  high  in  the  world:  then 
doth  every  society  return  to  the  place  where  it  came 
from,  as  the  materials,  or  spirit  of  the  builders  of  Babel 
returned  to  the  earth.  And  there  I  think  many  are,  that 
are  this  day  professing  Christ,  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  by 
which  he  was  actuated  according  to  the  most  holy,  great 
and  adorable  will  of  God.  For  this  cause,  that  ye  cannot 
tell,  or  never  have  told,  the  difference  between  the 
Father  and  the  Son,  or  between  the   diap-osation,  or 
visitation  of  the  Son  in  the  world,  or  the  Holy  Ghost. 
-For  which  cause  I  am  tempted  to  believe,  that  ye  know 
not  these  things  in  us,  and  so  much  like  the  builders  of 
Babylon  in  this  day,  that  ye  think,  that  your  present  state 
will  carry  you  to  heaven,  and  that  every  society  is  right 
that  professes  Jesus  Christ  to  be  the  light  of  the  world: 
till  some  amongst  you  continue   to  build  up,  while 
others  are  pulling  down  seven  times  faster  than  others 
build.  In  which  state  the  spiritual  professors,  with  all 
.  the  rest  are  like  to  fall  into  that  state  in  which  Babylon 
was  begun  in  spirit,  which  is  to  say,  in  a  state  of  sm, 
death  and  darkness.  We,  1  or   us,  believe  m  Father, 
Son,  and  Holy  Ghost,  because  they  have  heard  of  these 
"things,  or  names  in  the  Godhead:  therefore  they  under- 
take to  profess  them  all,  not  knowing  any  of  them,  nay, 
scarcely  received  so  much  as  to  know  we  are  sinners 
and  hath  much  need  thereof;  which  is  and  was  just  like 
the  builders  of  Babylon,  who  when  they  heard  of  heaven 
immediately  provided  a  way  to  get  there,  like  a  man  pro- 
fessing Christ  in  sin,  which  is  the  ministry  to,  or  for 
that  state,  like  a  people  professing  to  go  to  heaven  on  a 
tower,  built  of  the  things  of  God. 


t 


45 

Was  Christ  like  the  tower  of  Babylon?  nay,  Christ 

lUrt  "''"'''  '°  '""'  ^"^  '"^  'o--  °f  Babylon 
buU,  of  the  things  of  God.  Can  people  make  a  Babylon 

when  they  should  begin  at  the  bottom,  and  begin  in  tl^ 

lluT.      *"'  5"'  '"■"'■'  "'«y  '"^^  '°  »"«  second, 
vvhtch  leads  mto  the  kingdom  of  heaven,  and  in  favour 

and  in  the  presence  of  God:  but  the  builders  of  Baby- 

ln"J'f  T  ^^'"  '°  ■'""''  "^  '""^   '°P'  ""y'  "«  they 
ought  to,  for  there  they  come  to  the  spirit  of  that  which 

was  in  them  before  they  began  to  build;  which  if  they 
had  known,  they  might  have  tried  to  have  built  a  little 
downwards,  and  have  become  into  one  spirit  before  they 
began;  in  which  state  I  think  many  of  them  would  not 
have  bu.It  at  all,  to  come  to  nothing.  Moreover,  I  be- 
.eve  If  some  of  the  active  members  knew  what  spirit 
they  were  of  they  would  be  still;  but  for  want  thereof  so- 
cieUes  get  confounded  on  the  top,  or  after  they  have 
g  own  up  a  while  by  different  kinds  of  spirits,  which 
will  bnng  many  of  them  to  the  earth,  as  low  as  the  tower 
was  before  one  stone  was  laid  on  another,  or  any  two 
formed  together  in  the  earth.  Thus  Christ  is  professed 
in  the  dark,  and  the  works  of  God  hidden  in  the  night, 
•    for  want  of  repentance  in  the  soul,  every  man  building 
on  his  own  foundation  in  a  state  of  sin.  before  the  heart  is 
made  clean,  having  corruption  at  the  root  thereof.  So  was 
the  builders  of  Babylon  corrupted  in  spirit,  which  thing 
destroyed  the  building,  to  the  dishonour  of  the  work- 
man;  so  will,  hath,  and  do  societies  fall  to  the  disho- 
nourof  the  ministry  and  acUve  members  therein,  be-  I    > 
cause  they  lay  the  foundation  in  the  night,  and  build,  or  t 
profess  thereon,  without  being  baptized,  or  prepared   \ 
thereunto,  ull  the  day  cometh  that  they  can  see  to  buUd 
no  more;  after  which  they  do  one  thine  over  and  ov,-. 
Deeause  no  more  is  given  them  of  G<^.  The  reason  is 


I 
'i 


■  t   ; 


I 


46 

plain  to  all:  we  think  we  know  so  much,  and  hath  re- 
ceived such  large  portions  of  his  spirit,  we  do  not .  and 
in  need  of  any  more,  or  that  any  man  should  teach  us 
any  farther:  true,  that  is  far  enough,  and  we  have  need 
of  some  one,  or  sotnething  to  teach  us  backwards,  and 
bring  all  such  Babylons  in  us  to  the  ground,  that  profess 
every  thing,  knowing  nothing  in  the  order  and  purpose 
thereof,  which  is  the  state  of  many  in  this  day,  crying 
up  and  down  the  Lord  is  with  us,  come  follow  us  for  we 
are  right,  come  and  hear  what  our  teachers  say.  Well 
I  will  stand  by  and  see  you  build,  and  see  how  high  you 
can  go  before  you  fall.  But  hear  me  a  moment  before 
you  begin  to  preach,  after  which  you  may  be  at  liberty  to 

build,  or  say  on. 

Seven  days  make  one  week,  one  of  which  belongeth 
unto  God  alone,  and  Jesus  Christ  rested  therein,  and  be- 
came, or  was  Lord  thereof;  the  seventh  power,  day, 

1  cn^-n'R 


eth  to  me,  the  spirit  of  God,  of  which 
no  man  is  Lord,  save  God  alone;  but  when  the  six  days 
of  the  week  are  fulfilled,  then  the  seventh  is  his  to  rest 
with  all  his  works,  or  beasts  and  servants,  which  is 
the  senses  of  his  body;  on  the  sixth  day  Adam  was  made 
a  living  soul;  after  which  cometh  the  seventh,  on  which 
God  rested;  therefore  it  is  hard  for  me  to  believe  that 
after  God  made  Adam  a  living  soul,  or  the  knowledge 
of  all  things  living  therein,  that  he  done  any  thing  more, 
save  form,  or  abide  in  a  state  of  rest  which  he  finished, 
and  rested  on  the  seventh  day,  signifying  thereby  that  he 
was  the  greatest  number,  or  highest  power  of  all  the 
days  of  the  week:  but  when  ever  one  evening  and  morn- 
ing was  formed,  it  was  counted  or  numbered  in  this 
yyay,— calling  it  the  first,  and  that  it  was  good,  because 
it  was  of  God,  and  so  on  throughout  the  whole  of  them, 
a.:ii  »u^  ,.,^^\r  r^f  tK<i  c^^vADtH  ws R  fim&hed.  attd  God  bless- 
04  all  things  which  he  had  made,  because  he  saw  that  it 


ath  rc- 
t  w  and 
ach  us 
i  need 
ds,  and 
profess 
lurpoae 
crying 
for  we 
.  Well 
gh  you 
;  before 
Derty  to 

longeth 
and  be- 
sr,  day, 
if  which 
six  days 
3  to  rest 
hich  is 
as  made 
n  which 
eve  that 
3wledge 
ig  more, 
Bnished, 
ythat  he 
f  all  the 
id  morn- 
1  in  this 
because 
of 'them, 
od  bless- 
iw  that  it 


47 

was  good;  so  also  done  he  in  Christ  the  second  time, 
aiid  all  tl,at  Christ  done  on  earth,  from  the  cradle  to  the 
grave,  or  sepulchre,  was  good;  in  which  state,  or  day,  his 
spirit  or  soul  rested  with  God  in  Paradise,  till  the  begin- 
ning  of  another  day,  or  new  creation,  which  took  piace 
on  the  first  day  of  the  week  once  more,  when  God  called 
his  whole  body  from  the  dead,  to  arise  and  show  forth 
the  power,  honour,  and  glory  of  God,  on  earth,  before 
he  ascended  the  kingdom,  which  he  must  do  before  he 
could  return  unto  us,  calling  our  mortal  bodies  from  sin 
by  John,  Moses,  prophets,  and  others  crying  to,  and  in 
us,  repent  of  our  wickedness:— Let  that  which  we  have 
exalted,  be  laid  low,  and  all  crooked  professions  be  made  " 
straight  in  us,  by  receiving  the  spirit  of  Moses  and  the 
prophets,  with  them  that  baptize  on  earth,  that  the  ways 
of  the  Lord  be  made  straisfht  in  us,  and  not  one  exalted 
atiove  another,  in  which    ,ate  John  was  sent  into  the 
world  as  a  messenger  ijefore  his  face,  prepanng  the 
world,  or  our  hearts  in  the  spirit  of  the  nature  thereof, 
for  Jesus  Christ,  or  the  ministry  of  God  to  become  ac- 
tive therein,  building  us  up  in  his  most  holy  faith,  that 
all  things  which  Christ  doeth  therein,  is  good,  and  pass- 
eth  not  away;  but  that  every  act  which  is  done  in  us,  in 
obedience  to  his  life,  is  justified  of  God,  when  Christ 
resigns  up  the  soul  to  God  that  gave  it,  that  he  may  be- 
come  all  and  all  therein;  therefore  the  order  of  God  in  a 
state  of  peace,  is  first  to  know  our  own  sir/i;  second,  to 
repent  thereof,  by  the  ministry  of  the  spirit  of  y     is 
Christ,  which  first  brings  us  to  a  knowledge  theicji 
after  which  we  are  made  clean  from  the  power  of  temp, 
tation,  by  his  ministry,  as  he  overcame  all  temptations, 
before  he  began  to  preach  the  will  of  God  in  the  soul  of 
man,  in  the  midst  of  this  wicked  wo.id,  by  which  we 
become  worthy  to  receive,  or  conceive  the  Holy  GhoRS 
once  more;  after  which,  or  by  which,  we  can  do 'the  will 


"."M'P 


s  S 


48 

of  God  in  Christ  to  the  praise  of  God  for  visiting  us,  or 
the  world,  by  the  ministry  of  his  Son,  who  preached, 
nor  done  nothing  else  in  the  world  for  or  to  us,  save  the 
•will  of  his  father,  by  which  life,  or  ministry  in  the  world, 
he  became  equal  with  the  will  of  God  in  us,  and  a  visi- 
ble object  that  we  could  both  see  and  hear,  after  the  eye 
and  ear  of  the  soul  is,  or  was  closed  up  by  death,  which 
took  place  by  sin  in  uc  all. 

Therefore  in  the  ministry  of  the  word  of  God  or  the 
spirit  thereof  is  much  room,  and  in  the  house  of  God  are 
many  mansions,  else  the  spirit  of  Jesus  Christ  could  not 
have  been  the  salvation  of  God  to  all  that  believe  there- 
in, to  the  doing  thereof,  as  in  Christ,  when  he  passed 
through  the  world,  from  the  manger  to  the  cross,  in 
which  he  was  in  many  states,  and  a  minister  to  us  in  all, 
by  keeping  and  doing  the  will  of  God  in  all.  But  if  we 
know  not  in  which  of  these  states  we  are  in,  or  which  of 
them  Christ  is  in — in  us  if  we  have  received  him 
at  all,  then  our  profession  is  a  Babylon  on  earth,  and 
is  more  likely  to  fall  than  to  stand,  when  the  master 
builders,  or  ministers  thereof,  cannot  teach  another 
what  they  should  do  in  the  spiritual  l  -ne  of  Jesus 
Christ;  neither  has  the  inhabitants  thereof  got  to  that 
state  in  society  in  which  they  are  satisfied. 

Therefore  Babylon  is  built  up  in  many,  and  must  fall, 
or  be  overthrown,  and  the  exaltation  thereof  be  laid  low 
before  the  spirit  of  Christ  will  do  the  will  of  God  in  the 
hearts  of  these,  in  which  it  is  exalted;  seeing  all  things 
had  to  be  made  straight,  and  even  in  the  world  by  John, 
before  he  preached  the  power  of  God  therein.  So  also 
believe  I,  that  many  a  profession  will  be  laid  low,  before 
many  will  come  to  a  knowledge  of  Jesus  Christ  in  them- 
selves, and  the  ministry  of  the  Godhead  in  Christ,  and 
how  God  came  aoart  into  his  thrpp.  rlistinrt  nQf.it.^.,  «« 
baptisms  which  again  bringeth  all  things  together,  in 


L  > 


.     49 

the  name  of  one  all  great  and  all  powerful  God,  into 

TnJlh   "f" '°"""'  ^y  """'"R  °»e  thing  firM,  and  then 

another,  till  every  seal  is  opened  in  them,  a..d  every  day 

of  the  woik  filled  up  before  the  seventh  cometh:  so  must 

every  purpose  of  the  coming  of  Jesus  Christ  be  filled 

up,  before  the  knowledge  and  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost 

cometh:  so  must  the  doctrines  and  mysteries  of  the  old 

and  new  testament  be  filled  up,  before  we  receive  the 

knowledge  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  which  taught  Adam  before 

s.n,  and  w.ll  teach  us  when  sin  is  done,  the  same  gifts 

which  are  wntten,  preceded  out  from  the  Holy  Ghost  to 

us  m  a  state  of  sin,  and  must  be  known  by  us  before  we 

Z  T"'  ""  ^^°'^  ^'^°''  "eain,  seeing  the  spirit ' 
thereof  IS  greater  than  all  things  which  are  written,  and 
the  Father  greater  than  the  Son,  while  he  abides  on 
earth,  or  ,„  us.  Therefore  he  must  be  first  known  in  ex- 
perience, before  we  can  know  God,  an..'  be  at  peace,  see- 
wg  we  have  lost  the  greater  spirit  by  sin,  and  the  less  is 
given  us,  til   we  return  in  that  state  in  which  we  firs 
received  it,  in  which  state  Christ  goeth  away  from  us  in 
the  flesh,  and  appeareth  in  us  with  the  father,  where  all 
thing,  are  given  into  his  power,  which  is  the  gift  of  God 
and  the  ghost  of  Christ,  or  the  spirit  of  God,  rests  in 
thZf  '"""""'""'•/'•"«  the  various  gifts,  or  portions 
thereof  are  on  earth  striving  with  man  for  his  ledemp- 
«on,  m  the  various  states  thereof;  if  which  portion  »c 
had  received  as  with  God,  we  would  know  in  wh.t  state 

M-  «  !■*  r'  ""'°  ""=  "'^"  ^»  'hat  hunger  might  be 
satisfied;  and  all  that  are  unclean  be  washed;  and  a  due 
proportion  of  God's  will,  or  spirit  be  preached  to  ^' 
p  o^e;  andin  our  hearts  .here  would  be  much  room  fo 
all  God  s  people  to  rest:  for  the  h^.,.,  :.  .,.„  r...  . 
house  and  Ms  order  will  appear" UieVe'in.  ;,;;:s';Xa: 
Babylon  on  earth  is  overthrown;  and  every  one  shal 

F. 


k' 


.1     ' 


50 

know  the  will  of  God  therein,  and  portion  of  grace  which 
he  hath  received:  after  which  there  shall  be  peace  on 
earth  with  all,  and  all  walk  in  the  order  of  God  in  Christ 
for  ever;  and  the  building  shall  not  come  down  any  more, 
neither  shall  the  spirit  of  Christ  be  crucified  unto  death 
by  the  builders  of  laws,  and  temples  on  the  earth  any 
more;  and  while  sin  remains  on  earth,  Christ  will  be  still 
in  the  souls  of  some,  as  he  was  in  his  mother's  womb  on 
earth;  these  can  profess  nothing,  and  others  shall  be 
passive  in  the  power   >f  beasts,  as  Christ  was  in  the 
manger,  amongst  oxen,  and  not  be  hurt;  and  others  shall 
be  fulfilling  the  law  as  other  men,  and  not  be  distin- 
guished, or  discovered  from  others,  as  was  Jesus  Christ 
in  the  days  of  his  yo'itli,  when  wisdom  was  multiplying 
upon  him,  preparing  him  for  the  conception,  or  recep- 
tion, and  bringing  forth  of  the  gospel  of  order  and  peace; 
and  when  it  appeared,  it  condemned  no  pa^i  of  his  past 
life;  nor  yet  them  that  had  lived  on  earth  before  the 
coming  of  his  fletjh  therein.  Therefore  he  is  and  was  the 
house  of  God;  in  which  there  is  much  room;  his  spirit 
containing  the  inspiration  of  all  things  which  are  written 
in  scripture  of  God:  therefore  blessed  was,  and  is  he  in 
every  state;  which  if  we  knew  in  ourselves,  we  should 
no  more  judge  and  condemn  each  other,  but  reprove  by 
the  word  of  instruction  till  the  least  became  like  the 
greatest,  and  the  greatest  like  the  least,  seeing  the  son 
of  God  once  became  a  child,  and  was  born  of  a  woman 
like  unto  us,  and  more  in  obedience  than  all  that  hath 
binned;  in  this,  that  he  humbly  kept  the  will  and  law  of 
God  from  the  beginning  in  us,  which  we  ourselves  did 
not:  therefore  he  that  saith  that  he  hath  Jesus  Christ,  or 
the  spirit  thereof  to  his  Lord  and  master,  and  receiveth 
not  his  doctrines  to  do  them,  nor  keepeih  not  his  com- 
mands is  a  liar,  and  his  profession  is  a  perfect  Babylon 
on  earth,  as  professing  Christ,  not  knowing  nor  fulfilling 


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any  part  of  his  life.  Such  are  the  professors  of  the  God- 
head separated  apart,  not  being  in  one  spirit  together,  as 
God,  and  Christ;  as  Son,  or  Holy  Ghost,  he  want  of 
which  makes  more  Babylons  on  earth,  thfc  .  there  are 
stars  in  the  firmament  of  heaven;  and  for  want  of  the 
knowledge  jf  which,  or  lights*  of  God's  power  in  the 
scriptures,  many  will  be  confounded  and  Tall  to  the  earth, 
both  Jew  and  Gentile  as  the  one  work  and  one  spirit  are 
necessary  in  all,  either  by,  or  without  the  knowledge 
thereof. 


SOME  REASONS 

FOR  BELIEVING  THAT  THE  SPIRIT  OF  CHRIST  IS 
NOT  IN  ALL  THAT  PROFESS  HIS  NAME. 

If  I  could  stand  on  yonder  shore, 

And  see  yon  distant  sun 
Arise  from  death,  to  set  no  more, 

l*d  think  that  time  ha*,  come, 
When  Christ  in  spirit  had  come  down, 

To  light  these  glromy  skies; 
O  then  my  soul  would  give  renown 

To  every  word  that  flies. 
That  is  proclaimed  by  Christ  aloft,  ^^ 
.  y    That  dwells  above  the  skies; 
That  is  not  by  the  billows  tost, 

Nor  trusts  in  earthly  joys. 
But  we  in  our  immortal  strains, 

How  oft  they  pass  away, 
And  all  our  labour  and  our  pains, 

Will  scarcely  last  one  day. 
Behold  how  many  a  goodly  work, 

In  one  poor  age  doth  fail: 


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Behold  how  Christ,  our  law,  is  brok  ., 

And  scripture  turn'd  to  tales. 
That's  sang  and  preached  by  every  man, 

Let  him  be  rich  or  poor; 
To  preach  the  scripture,  that  he  can, 

Although  he  knows  no  more. 
He  takes  the  book,  and  rambles  o'er 

The  works  that's  ready  done; 
In  doing  this,  he  does  no  more, 

Nor  tells  of  what's  to  come. 
Therefore  he's  not  a  prophet's  name. 

Descriptive  of  God's  power; 
Neither  doth  he  in  scripture  gain, 

Although  he'd  preach  for  ever. 
Therefore  the  point  we'd  best  give  o'er, 

And  seek  some  other  spirit; 
And  ramble  o'er  the  book  no  more, 

Till  we  ourselves  can  wear  it. 
Then  we  would  be  like  Christ  indeed, 

That  scripture  did  fulfil. 
And  not  be  like  that  cursed  breed. 

That  preaches  others*  skill. 

The  men  of  God  hath  not  done  so, 

Nor  yet  on  scripture  cali'd; 
But  this  is  what  their  souls  did  do, 

To  say  what  was  reveal'd. 

But  if  we  do  climb  up  again, 
In  works  which  they  have  done, 

A  thief,  a  bz^itard,  is  our  name, 
When  Jesus  Christ  doth  come. 

Therefore  1  would,  tiiou  preach  no  more? 

In  telling  th!\t  that's  done; 
But  rather  seek  ihat  goodly  store. 

That  knows  what  is  to  come. 


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For  so  done  Jesus  in  the  way, 
Poor  Moses  done  the  same, 

So  done  the  Prophets  in  iheir  day, 
In  God  our  father's  name. 

But  now  men  tell  what  they  did  say, 

The  same's  already  done; 
The  same's  the  work  of  every  day,-— 

Of  every  bastard  son. 

What  others  say  do  they  profess, 
And  tell  that  Christ  has  come; 

And  in  the  speech  of  others  rest, 
Not  doing  what  he  done. 

They  say  that  laws  have  pass'd  away, 
And  gospel  freedom's  come, 

When  they  have  not  fulfil'd  one  day, 
Of  all  that  Jesus  done. 

The  law  of  God  in  these  is  broke, 

And  that  that's  written  down; 
I  think  they  do  the  Devil's  work, 

And  give  to  hell  renown. 
Arise  Christ  JesusTn  my  soul, 

Just  as  my  mind  doth  grow; 
And  just  as  I  fulfil  in  all, 

Let  me  thy  spirit  know. 
Let  me  be  as  the  least  on  earth. 

If  it  should  please  God's  will; 
Or  be  my  lot  my  Saviour's  birth, 

According  to  my  skill. 

Not  mine,  O  God,  that  I  posst  js. 

Contrary  to  thy  will; 
B«t  yet  let  ray  poor  soul  profess, 

According  to  my  skill. 
Which  is  to  be  a  little  one, 

And  hope  of  pleasure  lost; 

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That  I  may  see  thy  Gospel  Son, 

Surmounting  all  that's  past. 
Then  I'll  stand  on  the  shore  and  sing, 

Although  I  joy  alone; 
That  God  my  Lord  and  sovereign  King, 

In  Jesus  Christ  has  come. 
In  vain  the  billows  roar  aloud, 

God's  spirit  is  supreme; 
And  soon  will  overthrow  the  proud, 

By  heavens'  mighty  scheme. 
Arise  Christ  Jesus  in  the  skies, 

On  earth  thy  power  is  all; 

Thy  spirit's  over  fading  joys. 
Triumphant  in  my  soul. 

Let  me  be  great,  let  me  be  small, 

My  Saviour  I  adore; 
Because  his  spirit  in  my  soul. 

Will  rise  to  set  no  more. 


A  SONG, 

Giving  God  praise,  on  the  first  day  qp  the  week 
OR  THE  Morning  op  the  Resurrection,       ' 

TRIUMPHANT  OVER  DeATH,  HeLL,  AND 

THE  Grave. 

How  great,  O  God's  thy  heavenly  cause, 

Triumphant  in  my  soul; 
How  strict  my  God's,  my  Saviour's  laws, 

And  truth  which  thou  hast  told. 
Behold  Christ  Jesus  on  the  cross. 

How  he  doth  bleed  and  djie; 


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Behold  his  poor  disciples*  loss, 
That  for  their  Lord  did  cry. 
Behold  dark  sins  which  we  have  done, 

Did  cause  his  soul  to  bleed; 
Behold  this  day  in  us  must  come. 

Of  which  we  stand  in  need. 
We  all  have  loving  servants  here, 

The  pleasure  of  this  life; 
But  where  on  earth  will  these  appear, 

When  death  doth  take  our  life. 
I  think  they  will  be  scattered  all. 

In  lands  of  deep  distress, 
Till  God  our  Lord  doth  on  us  call. 

To  his  great  name  profess. 
He  is  the  father  of  our  Lord, 

That  dwelt  beneath  the  skies; 
He  is  that  living  saving  word. 
That  death  never  destroys. 
How  great's  my  God  my  Lord  to  me. 

His  spirit  in  my  soul; 
When  I  the  resurrection  see, 

And  am  reliev'd  from  all. 
On  earth  dark  prisons  do  surround. 

And  Sons  of  Death  doth  howl; 
That  spirit  that  Christ  Jesus  bound 

Is  seeking  for  my  soul. 
The  sixth  day  of  the  week  is  gone, 

And  death  itself 's  overcome; 
And  now  my  soul  lie&  in  the  tomb. 

As  Christ  my  Lord  hath  done. 
I  call  him  Lord  because  he's  great. 

And  doth  my  pain  8UPi*ound; 
But  until  death  he's  just  our  mate, 
Till  deatli  and  hell  is  bound. 


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Then  he  from  death  doth  flee  away. 

And  God  our  father  comes;      ^^X-^ 
That  Holy  Ghost  of  every  day, 

That  opens  all  the  tombs.         f'Luti^ 
He  from  the  grave  set  Jesus  free;  ^«*'x.^ 

His  right's  to  rule  as  Lord; 
His  spirit  is  what  teaches  me, 

By  me  alone  ador'd. 
He  is  the  God  of  every  age, 

Since  ever  Jesus  come; 
He  is  that  honourM  reverend  sage, 

That  does  all  good  that's  done. 
Renown  to  thy  great  spirit,  God, 

All  men  receive  of  thee; 
Thou  art  the  Father  of  all  good, 

In  thy  great  liberty. 
Thou  an  that  God  that  rul'd  above, 
When  Christ  no  more  did  reign; 
Thou  art  that  God  that  hell  did  prove, 

By  raising  Christ  again. 
Now  God,  let  all  blind  objects  see 

That  death  and  hell's  in  vain, 
To  raise  up  death  to  war  with  thee 

In  whom  thy  Son  doth  reign. 
In  hell  they  had  him  once  confin'd. 

And  strongly  fix'd  the  door; 
The  powers  of  hell  was  then  combin'd. 

With  gallant  shouts  did  roar. 
In  vain  they  spent  their  noisy  breath. 
In  vain  they  fix'd  the  door;  ' 

For  God  his  father  rent  the  earth. 

And  Christ's  in  hell  no  more. 
So  let  my  soul,  my  humble  God, 
Christ's  honour'd  ways  fulfil; 


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And  me  by  thy  eternal  word, 
Reign  master  over  hell: 

That  no  dark  tyrants  of  the  night, 

Confine  my  infant  soul; 
But  yet  if  thou  should  see  it  right, 

I  give  to  them  mine  all. 
For  so  done  Jesus  on  the  Cross, 

That  day  when  he  did  die; 
But  now  let  Christ  my  Saviour's  loss, 

Prove  liberty  and  joy. 
lie  died,  to  set  my  body  free, 

0*er  this  he  rules  as  Lord; 
To  set  my  soul  at  liberty, 

To  God*s  inspiring  word. 
Christ,  the  salvation  of  the  ilesh. 

Hath  set  my  body  free; 
And  hell  can  never  have  her  wish, 

In  ruling  over  me. 

Great  God,  for  me  these  things  thou'st  done; 

For  peace  and  liberty; 
And  now  for  ever  more  to  come. 

Great  honour  be  to  thee. 

Thou  form'd  those  lights  within  the  skies; 

The  earth  is  rul'd  by  men; 
But  thou  can  curse  all  earthly  joys. 

And  raise  them  up  again. 
Just  so  is  all  baptized  souls, 

From  death's  dark  prisons  free; 
Just  so  is  all  proud  Satan's  fools. 

That  try  to  conquer  mee. 
They  once  on  earth  had  liberty. 

And  hell  did  Christ  control; 
But  thou,  in  thy  great  bravery. 

Did  overcome  them  all. 


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Thy  spirit's  like  the  morning  sun, 

That's  unconfin'd  by  men; 
That  in  the  firmament  doth  run, 
While  others  do  condemn. 
,  Thy  spirit  in  my  soul  arise, 
The  morning  star  hath  come; 
And  Christ  the  crown  of  earthly  joys, 

Before  that  light  doth  run. 
He  conqueV'd  all  thy  wrath  on  earth, 

When  he  went  down  to  hell; 
And  also  died  for  every  birth, 

That  by  proud  Satan  fell. 
To  tell  the  truth,  he's  thine,  O  God, 
No  more  belongs  to  hell;     < 
.  He  also  is  thy  pierceing  word. 
Of  which  I  know  right  well. 
He  fears  the  works  of  death  no  more. 

His  skill  hath  conquer'd  all; 
In  vain  for  men  to  fix  a  door. 

To  keep  my  soul  in  hell. 
God  bless  my  soul  with  Christ  my  Lord, 

This  resurrection  day; 
For  by  the  virtue  of  thy  word, 

I  hear  what  thou  doth  say. 
Proud  hell  yield  up,  thou  ancient  gljost 

And  let  my  Son  be  free;  ;  ^^ 

I  am  the  Lord  and  God  of  hosts. 

That  calleth  unto  thee. 
The  earth  did  rend,  and  hell  gave  up 

Those  souls  that  in  it  be. 
And  hell  became  a  broken  cup. 

And  God  my  Lord  is  free. 
Let^Il  on  earth  proclaim  his  namV, 
In  gospel  liberty; 


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When  they  with  Christ  have  pass*d  the  same, 

With  him  their  God  shall  see. 
More  glorious  than  the  sun  at  noon, 

When  stars  are  put  to  flight; 
But  these  that  doth  profess  too  soon, 

Doth  labour  in  the  night. 
Great  God  thy  name  as  king  ador'd, 

To  rule  on  earth's  thy  right; 
And  let  thy  spirit  rule  as  Lord, 

On  earth  to  shine  most  bright. 
The  resurrection  morning's  come, 

My  soul  doth  leave  the  shore: 
Thy  will  alone  in  me  be  done, 
The  sun  doth  set  no  more. 

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